Montgomery Academy - Facilities

Facilities

In 1963, the school relocated to a new site on Vaughn Road, now the premises of the Middle and Upper Schools. As student body size steadily grew, the initial 12 classrooms and lunchroom/auditorium were supplemented by 7 classrooms and a library in 1965, 4 classrooms and a gymnasium in 1966, 5 classrooms in 1967, and 3 montessori areas in 1971. The Perry Hill Road Campus for the Lower School, which by that time included "Form K" (Kindergarten), was opened in the late 1980s. In 1996 the Vaughn Road campus added the 10,000 square foot Garzon Library, designed by local architects Seay Seay and Litchfield. The library's central octagonal rotunda establishes a focal landmark for the Upper School Campus. The firm was then later contracted to design a new building, the Mary Katherine Archibald Blount Upper School, as well as a pedestrian bridge connecting the academic campus with newly annexed athletic fields across the busy Vaughn Road. Previously, the land which is now the athletic campus had been an immense lawn for a Masonic retirement home. In the summer of 2007, the school began a renovation, scheduled for completion in the winter of 2008, of the old Mead Hall, which will include a multi-purpose theater, as well as facilities for the forensics and drama programs. The project also includes a student commons extension to the existing Upper School Building, as well as a new-state-of-the-art track and field facility around the Hutchinson Soccer Field. The track was built by the same company that was contracted to install the track for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.