Sandy Lane Elementary School

FleischmanGarciaMaslowski (FG+M) Architecture designed a remodel for the campus and interior of this aging Clearwater Elementary School. The project’s remodel goal is to divide the open-plan layout with permanent walls (including new doors, framing, paint, and marker boards throughout) to create dynamic, state-of-the-art spaces, fostering a creative environment where students utilize art to enhance their learning experience.

The project’s second goal is to create a more functional area for parent pick up/drop off and entrance to the school that fully embodies the arts-integration theme so that all who enter are immersed in the arts. Additional improvements include updates to fire suppression, security cameras, intercom systems, IT networking, HVAC expansions, new automatic LED lighting, sinks in all classrooms, and new ceilings and flooring throughout the school. The building’s entryway will be entirely updated by creating a new lobby space, an administration suite with an adjacent conference room, new “clerestory” windows to bring daylight in classrooms, and façade improvements to the school’s exterior entryway.

When complete, the campus design will exemplify Sandy Lane Elementary Conservatory for the Arts theme for classroom innovation and social interaction with adaptive learning spaces. This revitalized campus will help to boost enrollment in this neighborhood school that will become home to many progressive Pinellas County School programs.