Willard High School – Willard

Steve Logan of Hood-Rich Inc. is the project architect for Willard R-II School District’s new high school. Paul D. Black of Hood-Rich is the structural engineer and architect/interior designer Jana Funk of Hood Rich is handling interior design. Norman Goth of Smith-Goth Engineers Inc. is the mechanical and electrical engineer. Branco Enterprises of Neosho is the general contractor for the 234,000-square-foot school, which will accommodate 1,700 students. Included in the project are state-of-the-art classrooms with smart boards, computers and educational equipment. A large commons area with a 30-foot-square skylight will serve as a dining hall and accommodate 500 students at a time, with four serving lines and a large adjoining kitchen. A 500-seat theater with drama rooms and workshop space and a new library also are part of the project. Open stairways will lead to a second-floor mezzanine that will accommodate student lockers. A 1,900-square-foot gymnasium will feature 500 fixed stadium seats and telescopic bleachers that will seat 1,400. An auxiliary gymnasium that will seat 200 adjoins the locker rooms. There will be large vocal and instrumental music rooms, two art classrooms, a woodworking shop, weight room, wrestling room and Reserve Officer Training Corps room. The exterior of the building, scheduled for completion this summer, will be brick with stucco, precast concrete panels and a standing-seam metal roof.