Head-Royce School - Campus

Campus

The Head-Royce campus was built in a ravine adjacent to Lincoln Avenue in Oakland, CA. The current campus consists of three distinct areas, coinciding with the three "divisions."

The Lower School is in the lowest and most western part of the ravine and has two buildings: the "Rotunda" which contains the main lower school office as well as the kindergarten and first grade classrooms, and the "Lower School Building" which contains the classrooms for 2nd through 5th grade. This is also the location of the after school program, lower school library, and computer lab. The lower school is also consists of a vegetable garden, a courtyard, a large play structure known as the "Big Toy" (although the "Big Toy" brand is no longer used) and a basketball court.

The middle school building is farther east and uphill. The main gathering area for the middle school is a large patio which is just below the administrative offices and overlooks the swimming pool. The main floor of the building houses 7th and 8th grade classrooms, the “Community Room” (which is also used for the school’s choir groups), as well as the Mary E. Wilson Auditorium (commonly referred to as "MEW"). The MEW hosts weekly "morning meetings", assemblies, performances, and special events. The main level also contains a kitchen which serves as a cafe for breakfast and lunch, staffed by the Epicurean Group, and a lounge room which serves as a lunchroom for faculty as well as a meeting room. The 6th classrooms are located on the lower level along with both vocal and instrumental music rooms. This level shares a courtyard with the lower school.

The fine arts studios are located on the other side of the MEW and include a computer lab for digital imaging and video production, a ceramics studio, the instrumental music room, and a drama room. On the upper level of these rooms are the 3D and 2D art studios and an art gallery.

Next to the fine arts classrooms and parallel to Lincoln Avenue is the World Languages Building, a two level building dedicated to the middle and upper school language classes (Latin, French, Spanish and Mandarin). This building was completed in 2008 as one of the changes of the “Master Plan”, Head-Royce's plan for renovation and reconstruction.

The World Languages Building is one of three new buildings built around the main courtyard of the upper school. The other two buildings are the Read Library and the main upper school building, which is perpendicular to Lincoln Avenue and has three levels. The bottom level houses the Jayhawk Café, run by the Epicurean Group. The faculty room, student-faculty lounge, computer lab, and upper school office are adjacent to the café. The second and third levels have most of the English, history, math, and science classrooms, including two biology labs and two chemistry labs.

The building parallel to the main upper school building houses additional math, history, language, and science (specifically physics) classrooms. It is commonly referred to as “the old middle school” because the middle school and high school switched places at the start of the 2008-2009 school year. This building is connected to the Paul Chapman Pavilion (the gym) which includes a weight room. Further east of the gym is the outdoor basketball court, the tennis courts, the athletics field, and the parking lot.