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2026-04-11 Portal: claytonschools Section: 4. PERFORMING ARTS ADDITION/RENOVATIONS #q07ab

SOLUTIONS: • Fully renovate Gay Field, including adding another parking lot; expanding the existing parking lot; refreshing the football field; replacing the seating; adding a new fieldhouse with locker rooms, trainer rooms, and restrooms; adding an endzone facility with concessions, restrooms, and potential future classrooms; adding the appropriate track and field events and facilities; adding site fencing, and adding signage for Gay Field. • Complete the Adzick field press box, restrooms, and dugout projects. • Renovate the Shaw Park field used for softball to the level of Adzick Field. • Add a field hocky field in the less used western parking lot at Clayton High School site. • Potential to switch the facilities of Gay Field and two fields of Shaw Park to accommodate to get the Athletics and Activities on the same site as Clayton High School. • Purchase lands adjacent to the high school such as the Caleres property in order to locate a field hockey field there, as well as a Performing Arts Center. CHALLENGES: • The counseling, wellness space, and nursing locations are scattered throughout the building and do not provide adequate privacy for students.

SOLUTIONS: • Provide a combined Student Services Space that includes Counseling, Nursing, Administration, and College Readiness in one wing near the main entrance. CHALLENGES: • The existing Auditorium and Black Box are not adequately sized and cannot accommodate current audience capacities. • Support spaces (scene shop, practice rooms, classrooms, storage, etc.) are not easily accessible and are inadequately sized.

SOLUTIONS: • Provide a new, large district-wide gathering space with updated Auditorium. • Provide an addition near the performing arts that includes a new Black Box, additional restrooms, a new lobby, etc. • Renovate finishes of the existing auditorium space and provide addition to include space for practice rooms, storage, scene shop, etc. • Renovate existing performing arts lobby and restrooms into a new lecture hall to grow space for the performing arts and the school. • Recommendations for the lecture hall include proper acoustic treatment and flexible and adaptable furniture and equipment. CHALLENGES: • SSD classrooms are not large enough to accommodate lessons.

SOLUTIONS: • Provide an SSD suite with several large classrooms and a life skills classroom. CHALLENGES: • There are several new programs that are going to be taught in the upcoming school year, such as AMPED in Algebra and Geometry in Construction. • There are also programs that are growing, such as Robotics and Catalyst. • There is no dedicated learning space in the school that is appropriately sized or available for use as a lecture hall.

SOLUTIONS: • Provide an addition for a large space that can accommodate AMPED, Geometry in Construction, Robotics, and additional classrooms. • Recommendations include large, multi-story spaces for Geometry in Construction and Robotics, the use of glass walls and whiteboard walls in the breakout spaces, and the use of whiteboard walls in new math classrooms to increase mobility during learning. 39 40 DOT EXERCISES 41

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