Located in Santa Clara, California, this modern elementary school is arranged with classrooms surrounding a spacious central courtyard designed by Carducci Associates. The schoolyard features an outdoor theater, a covered lunch area, and grassy knolls, as well as educational elements: walkways that display historical events, a geography court with a map of the world, geology walls replicating
earth layers, columns that indicate metric and English measurements and a science garden irrigated by the school’s recycled water system. An adjacent park ball field is used by the children for physical education.