AVON, Ind. — Avon Community Schools is breaking ground on a new middle school.
Avon Middle School West will be located at 1204 South County Road 450 East.
The two-story building should be completed by the start of the 2025–2026 school year.
The 221,196-square feet building will accommodate approximately 1,000 students and can expand up to 1,125 students if needed in the future.
Highlights of the building include:
- Two-story academic wing with dedicated first-floor area for sixth grade and second-floor area for seventh and eighth grades.
- Academic Learning Commons on the first and second floor supports small and large group collaboration.
- Library & Innovation Center, with a large, flexible collaboration-based learning environment.
- Cafetorium with a stage designed and acoustically tuned to support performing arts concerts.
- Multipurpose gymnasiums, performing arts classrooms/labs, project labs, and cafetorium are accessible from all parking areas and easily isolated from the academic suite for after-hours building use.
- Academic and event commons include clearstory windows to bring natural light into the core of the building.
- Centrally-located field sports building provides easy access and support for all sports.
- Sports fields include tennis courts, softball and baseball fields, a football and track field, a discus and shot-put area, and practice fields.
“We are excited to celebrate the groundbreaking of Avon Middle School West,” ACSC Superintendent Dr. Scott Wyndham said. “It is a significant milestone in what has been a deliberate and thorough process involving helpful input from students, educators, parents, and members of the community."
When it opens, the district will eliminate its intermediate schools.
Sixth through eighth grade will go to the three middle schools.
The current two intermediate schools will then become two more elementary schools for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
