Verona Area High School Tour Guide

DESIGNING THE HIGH SCHOOL VERONA AREA HIGH SCHOOL SITE

We began the 18-month design process by engaging W. VERONA AVENUE BUS AND DELIVERY ROUTE
our students, staff, and community. Visioning PARENT DROP OFF
sessions, school tours, surveys, and many focus groups WEST END CIRCLE
helped us to learn about the school community’s needs WALL STREET NINE MOUND ROAD WELCOME TO THE
and wants. From there, we designed the new high EPIC LANE
school to be: WOODS ROAD

• Engaging • Adaptable STAFF PARKING TENNIS STEWART’S
• Forward Thinking • Sustainable
• Diverse • Full of Natural Light VISITOR PARKING
• Inclusive • Safe and Secure
• Collaborative PACRAEKQINUTNEAGTRIC
MAIN PLAZA AREA ASFNTOADODTTIRUBAMACLKL SOFTBALL
ENTRANCE PRFAICETLDICSE SOFTBALL

The Interior Design promotes the well-being of AQUATIC CENTER SOUTH STUDENT SOCIAL
ENTRANCE ENTRANCE STAIRS
students and inspires creativity. A committee of school
staff worked with architects to help mimic glacial FINE ARTS RECEIVING
landscape formations and employ geographic land ENTRANCE
patterns and materials to represent different landforms
surrounding the school. Trees from the building site SPTAURDKEINNGT STUDENT PARKING
were cut and milled onsite, then used as accent PARKING
features throughout the building.
PARKING WILDCAT WAY
SOCCER PRAFCIETLIDCE TRAIL
SOCCER STADIUM MILITARY RIDGE

Safety and Security were a top priority during STATE

the design process. Transparency, supervision, access BASEBALL
control and secure places within the high school were
designed to ensure a safe environment for students BASEBALL PARKING
and staff.

fun facts HIGHWAY 151 RETENTION SCHOOL
POND FOREST AND
• 2 83,734 bricks were used in construction, CROSS COUNTRY
equaling 253 basketball courts.
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• 5 3,000 tons of concrete were poured
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onsite - enough to fill 2,950 concrete trucks.
• The school sits on 161 acres of land, home to an energy-saving geothermal field 234 Wildcat Way • Verona, WI 53593 • 608.653.1000
• The atrium is more than two football fields
long between exit doors. and Military Ridge State Trail.

• I t would take a person one million days to • The building footprint is approximately seven acres in size.
• The entire high school measures 590,000 square feet.
drink all the water in both pools if they drank a
half gallon a day.

NEW VERONA AREA HIGH SCHOOL POINTS OF INTEREST

VERONA AREA HIGH SCHOOLFIRSTFLOOR ATRIUM & COLLABORATION

FIRST FLOOR • The Atrium is the heart and social center of
the school.
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• Collaborative spaces are found inside and outside
LOWER LEVEL the building, including the social stairs, library
media center, small and large group instruction
AQUATIC CENTER FOIPEELNDTOHBOELOUWSE spaces, and more!
GREEN HOUSE
ENTRANCE MAIN CORE CURRICULUM SPACES
PHY ED AND FITNESS
BUSINESS / MARKETING LEAP LOCKER ROOMSENTRANCELOWER LEVEL• Natural light is incorporated in all classrooms.
• Each classroom is adaptable to future teaching
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SCIENCE EDUCATION OFFICE and learning styles with versatile furniture.
• Specially-designed lab classrooms for chemistry,
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biology, physics, and life sciences.
SOCIAL STAIRS
FINE ART SPACES
SECOND FLOOR PROTJHEECTWLAEYAD
• The Performing Arts Center seats 1,000 audience
FINE ARTS COFSANACMINSEIUDNLYMCEER KITCHEN AGRICULTURE HFOIEULSDE members, with a full fly space, trap room, and
ENTRANCE orchestra pit.

SECOND FLOOR ART TECHNICAL EDUCATION • The visual arts wing supports student creativity
with pottery wheels, 5 kilns, an art gallery,
SOUTH STUDENT SECURE RECEIVING AREA computer labs and more.
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• The music department houses practice rooms and
AQUOAPETNICTO CENTER SSTOACIRIASL FIELLODBHBOYUSE a state-of-the-art digital recording studio.

BELOW MAIN FIELD CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
HOUSE ENTRANCE
SPEPDCOETOACLTKOR • Students have lab classrooms for woods, metals,
small engines, and automotive.
THIRD FLOOR
• Agriculture classrooms have a greenhouse and a
OFFICES ENGLISH WORLD LANGUAGES OFFICES SOCIAL STUDIES WORLD AECXAPDLOEMRAYTION soils lab.
PAOERRPTEFSNOTCROEMBNEITNLOEGWR SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGES
ENGLISH • The professional culinary kitchen has a demo
WORLD LANGUAGES WORLD LANGUAGES table and video system for collaborative learning.
OPEN TO BELOW
OPEN TO BELOW OPEN TO BELOW • We are certified for Project Lead the Way in
AVID OPEN TO BELOW biomedical science and engineering.
MAKERSPACE CAFE OFFICES MATH OFFICES MATH
SCIENCE SCIENCE ATHLETIC SPACES
LIANRSGTREU-GCRTOIOUNP MATH SCIENCE MATH
SCIENCE • The Aquatic Center has two pools: one for
LIBRCAERNY TMEERDIA competition with a spectator deck for 800
people; and one warm water pool.
STAIRS/KEYED ELEVATORS ENTRANCES
• Our Field House seats 2,500 people with four
courts, a 160-meter track, and an auxiliary gym
for gymnastics.

• The Wildcat Football Stadium has a 2,300-seat
capacity on the home side, a 1,200-seat capacity
on the visitor side, and a 400-meter track.