Capital Campaign

Campus Renovations

One of Manlius Pebble Hill’s greatest virtues has always been managing to do so much in so little space. It seems we have always been challenged by a lack of space - space for specific programs such as athletics or music, space for faculty members to have their own individual classrooms, space for students to find a quiet corner to study and think. Thankfully, construction of the new Center for Early Learning and Media Center will enable additional areas across campus to be renovated as part of the project, enhancing many different aspects of student life.

The renovations will have a direct impact on the Fine and Performing Arts programs. The current library will be divided and renovated to create a new fine arts classroom for three-dimensional work and a dance studio with bars and mirrors, alleviating the competing needs of choral groups and dance rehearsals for the current stage. The lower level of the Barn will be renovated to create a new orchestra room where the senior lockers and Campus Shop are currently located; the Lower School music room will be moved to create space for our growing strings program. The net result is that the orchestra space will be doubled in size, as will the new Lower School music room.

The School’s athletic program has benefitted from the creation of several new athletic fields made possible through the recent lease of approximately 13 acres of farmland directly adjacent to the campus. This land was graded and seeded to accommodate the increasing needs of both fall and spring sports schedules.

In addition to these renovations, a variety of classrooms and offices on campus will be renovated to ease the pressure of space constraints:

Additional Middle School classrooms will be created, allowing those courses every Middle School student takes, like history and English, to be divided into smaller sections. This will permit a slight increase in enrollment in the Middle School grades, and, at the same time, smaller class sizes and a smaller teacher-to-student ratio.

The Health Office has already been moved from the Barn into a more centralized location within Bradlee.

The Second Grade classrooms have been moved into the Lehman Lower School Building so that Second Grade faculty and students can work more closely with the Blend, allowing for a smoother transition between these grade levels.

Lastly, with the construction of the Center for Early Learning, the School has created a new campus entrance, allowing for additional parking and a longer waiting space on campus for buses and cars. A dedicated drop-off and pick-up area for Prekindergarten and Kindergarten students makes this a safer process for our youngest students.

As the breadth and depth of our program grows, it is important that we continually assess how our campus can meet the changing needs of our students. All of these renovation projects have been carefully planned in order to have a direct impact on our entire community.

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"The biggest challenge we have right now is finding enough useable field space to accommodate our fall and spring athletic teams. We have 100 players on 5 soccer teams and only one full field. Creating additional field space shows students and the community that we consider athletics an integral part of our students' education."

--Don Ridall, Director of Athletics

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