SSA’s Ford Elementary School Chosen as Facility of the Month in School Construction News
SSA’s Ford Elementary School is the cover story of the November/December issue of School Construction News. The school was chosen as their Facility of the Month, and the accompanying three page article interviews SSA’s founding principal Sally Swanson. “This is a new architectural paradigm — a paradigm of happiness,” she explains. The elementary school has been highly praised by staff, parents, and students, who enjoy being in the school, and has enticed a hundred neighborhood students back to the public school.
“Children do not have much choice when it comes to where they attend school, but at J.O. Ford Elementary in Richmond, Calif., designers wanted to incorporate children’s needs into the new modernized campus in order for the space to be used more effectively for the “whole child,” a concept that designers worked hard to deliver on…”