The Madison School District has released its initial designs for the new Cherokee Heights and Sennett middle schools.
Susan Bowersox, a senior project architect with the district’s partner OPN Architects, presented the designs to Madison’s Urban Design Committee at its April 15 meeting, highlighting design features such as community learning spaces and nature-inspired details.
The committee provided feedback on the designs, but they weren’t put to a vote. The final plans will need city approval.
Sennett Middle School’s proposed design is a 155,000-square-foot, two-story building that would include two gyms, classrooms that look out onto green space and a portion available for public use after school.
The new building will be located next to the existing building at 502 Pflaum Road, which will be demolished and replaced with green space and athletic courts.
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Madison taxpayers have funded many referendums over the past decades, including the expansion of our least diverse schools: Van Hise and Hamilton when space was/is available elsewhere. Overall enrollment is flat to declining.