Cassi Renninger’s design for Forest Hills Junior-Senior High School created one of the most advanced educational buildings in the region. The design embraces modern teaching tools, technology, and social spaces. The roughly 180,000 square foot new building accommodates grades 7 through 12 in distinct, separate high school and junior high school color-coded, academic zones.
The school’s core arts, athletics, and cafeteria facilities are organized on the ground level along with a media center, tech-ed classrooms, and a state-of-the-art LGI. These facilities support both the high school and junior high school programs. The design of the corridors and common areas uses colors, murals, artifacts, and graphics to salute the District’s and the region’s assets, including former educational buildings and the local industries.
Several small group social and instructional spaces are distributed throughout the building to support the project-based learning programs rooted in various departments.
