Achievement First: Amistad Academy

New Haven, Connecticut

Client: Fletcher Thompson

Freeman Companies provided Civil Engineering to the Prime Architect and Land Surveying to the Prime Site Contractor.  The Martin Luther King School that previously existed on the site was demolished and replaced with the new 75,000 SF Amistad High School at 580 Dixwell Avenue, built to High Performance Building standards, and situated on a 6-acre site.  The new high school’s design includes a single-story wing that houses administrative offices, a media center, college placement offices, gymnasium, a cafeteria with a performance platform, along with a gallery at its entrance to showcase students’ art projects.  The three-story classroom wing serves up to 500 students in grades 9 through 12 with over 30 teaching spaces.  The school campus is designed to be a community resource, allowing public access to fields, gymnasium and meeting spaces.  Achievement First is a high-performance network of 22 nonprofit college-preparatory K-12 public charter schools in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island.

Freeman Companies contributed to parking lot designs as well as stormwater drainage designs of rain gardens that are situated in the parking lot medians and in the front of the school.  The school’s front rain garden is unique in that it is used both for drainage control as well as for science class curriculum and student learning.  The campus site also features such amenities as an updated AstroTurf football field and bike racks that are both open to student and public use.

In The News: ‘Achievement First Amistad High School’s New Building Dedicated’

Freeman Companies is providing the following services

 

  • Civil Engineering

 

 
  • Land Surveying