A New Vision:  A STEM School Within A School

Hussey Gay Bell was selected by the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools Board of Education to design the District’s new Jenkins High School project which, through heavily phased construction, will replace the existing school located on a 40-acre site off of DeRenne Avenue. The $66M, 239,000 square foot, two-story high school will be located directly behind the existing Jenkins High School and will consist of a gymnasium, auditorium, cafeteria, shooting range, energy labs with solar panels, and a media center. Jenkins will host seventy-four instructional spaces: 37 classrooms, 2 engineering labs, 10 science labs and 3 computer labs. Additionally, the new school’s athletic facilities will include a wrestling room, baseball field, softball field, practice football field and tennis courts. This high school will also include facilities to support a full STEM curriculum, a special needs wing for Exceptional Children of the Coastal Georgia Comprehensive Academy. Jenkins will accommodate 1,375 students. This project will be masonry wall construction with a Construction Management at Risk delivery method. At project completion, the entire existing high school will be demolished and replaced with new. The building is projected to be ready to welcome students in August 2021.