Bertschi Blooms: Our Future Campus
For 50 years, Bertschi has created an educational experience that inspires wonder. We seek to preserve the cozy, intimate, child-centered feel of our village-style campus, which is an essential aspect of the Bertschi experience.
We plan to further enhance how our students and teachers learn together and create more opportunities to explore and connect as a community on our campus. Our campus plans center around a new Schoolhouse building to provide larger, more flexible classrooms in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. The new building will allow us to locate both kindergarten classrooms next to each other as well as provide a shared collaborative space at each grade level to even better support our program’s focus on differentiated learning and small group work.
$6.8 Million Raised
Help Bertschi Bloom!
Gifts of all sizes from all members of our community help bring us across the finish line and ensure that this project is built on the widest possible foundation of community investment.
For additional information about giving options and payment plans, contact Rose Bellini.
What We're Building
Our plans also include a new Spanish classroom, flexibility for our after school program, LEAP, to use new classrooms after school, a new faculty/staff lounge, and a new main office and health room that fully support our needs.
The new building will also significantly lessen the environmental impact of our campus overall with improved mechanical systems and new solar panels. Other features of this project include preparing the first floor of the Annex as a home for a second pre-K classroom, updating some of our outdoor play spaces, and expanding universal accessibility for our 10th Ave E entrance and across campus.
Sustainable Design & Construction
With several celebrated certifications on our campus, including the first certified "Living Building" in Washington State and the first in the world built to the Living Building Challenge 2.0 standard, we strive to provide learning spaces that inspire students to create a healthier, positive, and sustainable future. The Schoolhouse project will achieve two new exciting certifications:
Bertschi Student Input
Bertschi students have been integral to our planning process, providing input from the very beginning. Early on, students met with our architects to dream big and draw what they imagined the future of Bertschi's campus could be. Later, students visited the offices of Mithun Architects to give input on evolving plans for the outdoor play spaces, weighed in on new playground equipment, as well as made a collective decision about color elements in the new Schoolhouse. The fingerprints of this generation of Bertschi students will be seen for many years to come.
Construction Timeline
We are planning for construction to begin in June 2026 and conclude in fall 2027. Please note these plans can shift and change. We will continue to update the community and neighborhood as we move further through the planning process. Current families can view the latest updates by logging into the family portal.
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