Imagine Our Future: The Campaign for Foote School
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
Imagining Foote’s future and how the campus can best serve faculty and students became possible last year. The school purchased 3.8 acres of contiguous property, very likely the last 
opportunity to add land to the campus. That property is now a regulation-size playing field, and the school is moving ahead with plans for a new building focused particularly on science and technology, with homeroom areas for Grades 8 and 9.
This gives us the further opportunity to create spaces that will enhance the Middle School experience as well as to renovate and adapt vacated spaces to meet other campus needs. Click the map to enlarge.
Please join us in this historic venture to raise $12 million to support the excellence in teaching and learning that is the hallmark of a Foote education.
Our Campaign Goals
Achieved:
• Purchase 3.8 acres of contiguous property
• Create a new regulation-sized playing field
To Achieve:
• Construct a 12,000 square foot science and technology building for the Middle School
that incorporates green design and aspects of sustainability so the building itself
is a teaching tool.
Above: Overhead view of the plans for the Jonathan Milikowsky Science & Technology Building from the southeast. Donations will be recognized with your name inscribed on the railing in and around the new building. Click on the the image to enlarge. Additional "clickable" images are at right.
The building, which will feature up-to-date technology that supports teaching and learning, will include:
- Science laboratories for biology, chemistry and physics
- Second-floor roof deck classroom to facilitate outdoor activities
and cultivation of plants
- Technology center
- Three eighth grade classrooms
- The ninth grade homeroom, a Harkness-style classroom
- A small conference room
- Gathering areas and lockers for Grades 8 and 9
- Office space for the Middle School administrators
• Renovate and adapt Middle School Building and other vacated spaces for new uses:
- Lower School science discovery room
- Lower School world languages classroom
- Redesigned and enhanced Learning Support Center
- Gathering areas and improved lockers for Grades 7 and 8
- Meeting rooms for grade and division meetingsWe officially broke ground on April 5, 2011.
The image below is from August 1. See more at our construction blog.Click on the image to enlarge.
