It is with great excitement and pleasure that The Piedmont School Board of Trustees and Head of School share that on Monday, November 18th the High Point City Council unanimously approved The Piedmont School's Special Use Permit application for future campus expansion. This 9-0 unanimous approval is a major and important step the school has achieved in movin towards future expansion plans.
Attorney, Will Quick (Brooks-Pierce) represented the school in sharing the phased expansion plans and request for special use permit with city council. The phased plans will assist the school in better serving their current population while also allowing for future enrollment expansion. It is the school's intention to build as funding is available per phase.
The four phase expansion plan will bring crucial and necessary facilities additions which include additional parking, additional classrooms (including an educational wing for high school students), an athletic field, a gymnasium, a new dining and commons area, science/tech classrooms, and include improvements to current facilities. These plans also include the removal of modular units currently on the property serving as high school classroom space and the relocation of the playground. Plans also include necessary and required land grading, required emergency access road, required lighting, retention pond expansion, and tree/brush barriers for the property line abudding the residential area.
What lies ahead...
The school intends to begin the process of pursuing Phase 1 of the expansion plans which will include applications for all required permitting for this phase of the project. Phase 1 includes: grading of the land for the complete four phases (to be completed once), additions to parking, athletic field, emergency road access, and an educational wing of classrooms dedicated for the school's high school division.
On November 20, 2024 the Board of Trustees for The Piedmont School unanimously voted to proceed with Phase 1 of the project and confirmed that funding is secured for this phase (estimated at $1.5M). The school has an expansion team in place with the Head of School leading and including the current Board Chair, Holly Myers, former Board Chair, Stan Gordon, and members from Boomerang architecture (Charlotte), Fourth Elm Construction (Kernersville), and Davis-Martin-Powell engineering (High Point). The team will be working in the coming months to submit necessary permit requests to the city for this phase of the expansion.