Will Rogers Learning Community classroom building &
Outdoor Learning Environments

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District | Santa Monica, CA

SIZE:

9,575 SF Classroom Building
22,420 SF Site Work

Status:

May 2021 - July 2025

Team:

PRINCIPALS:

Steve Johnson, Jim Favaro

PROJECT ARCHITECT:

Steve Johnson

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL:

Brian Davis, Kathy Williams

DESIGN ASSOCIATES:

Arvin Mirzakhanian, Chris Varela


The four kindergarten and three transitional-kindergarten (TK) classrooms of the new one-story building open out onto a 10,000 SF exterior play yard for open air recreation and outdoor learning. In front of the classroom building, new site work consisting of playfields, play courts and a 26,420 SF track field will replace and modernize a substantial portion of the school campus. Elsewhere on campus, existing kindergarten classrooms will be re-purposed for maker space classrooms.

This project is the first to emerge from the campus master plan completed by Johnson Favaro in 2020.