Arrowstreet
PCA360
Lee Kennedy Company
The Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) accepted the Squantum School into its Core Program in the spring of 2021. In May 2022, the City of Quincy and the MSBA entered into a Feasibility Study Agreement (FSB) for the Squantum School project.
MSBA’s mission is “to partner with MA communities to support the design and construction of educationally appropriate flexible, sustainable, and cost-effective public schools facilities.” The Squantum School has been identified as requiring either major renovation or reconstruction. As part of the MSBA building process, the feasibility study begin in the Spring of 2023. Findings from the study will inform the project plan for the new school.
Squantum Elementary School, which first opened in 1919, is Quincy’s fourth major school project to qualify for the MSBA Core Program; other projects include Quincy High School (2010), Central Middle School (2014), and, most recently, the new South-West Middle School, which opened in Spring 2019.
- Two-story, mostly new construction incorporating the original 1919 building. - The new school will be roughly 30,000sf of interior space larger than the current Squantum School.
- Current preferred conceptual design has an exterior courtyard to provide outdoor classroom space.
- This project's goal is to achieve a Net Zero building.
Kindergarten: 3 classrooms w/ toilets
Grades 1-3: 3 classrooms each
Grades 4-5: 3 classrooms each
Also included: Regulation Gym, Teacher planning rooms, STEM classrooms, ART, Music, Media Center/Library, Cafetorium, Outdoor Classroom, Special Education Classrooms.
With this design on a tight construction site, the project will utilize modular classrooms to minimize the impact to the students over the course of the project. More information on these modular classrooms can be found in the Modular Classrooms tab.