Next will come the Commons, a $10 million building that will be home for the two schools’ shared media center, cafeteria, kitchen, and art and music rooms.

But it was only the first phase of the new construction paradigm, according to Lewis, who retired last Friday. Opened last year, the new facility welcomes close to 250 kids daily at a construction cost of $13.7 million. Then the district replaced it with a sleek, airy, light-filled facility that’s supposed to complement Montessori principles, while at the same time mimic the slowly turning waters of the Ashley River with its flowing 35,000-square-foot floor plan. Usually, when the Charleston County School District builds a new school on an old site, it tears down the original school before construction begins.īut just off Ashley River Road, at the conjoined campus housing Springfield Elementary and Montessori Community schools, Bill Lewis, the former Chief Operating Officer of Capital Programs for Charleston County School District, led a new approach.įirst, the district scrapped the long, boring brick building Montessori Community called home.

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