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EDUCATION DESIGN SHOWCASE • K-12
HONORABLE MENTION
ENID HIGH PERFORMING ARTS AND ATHLETICS CENTER ENID PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ENID, OK
ENID HIGH SCHOOL WAS
established in 1884. Originally, the school was designed with
a gymnasium to house their basketball and other various indoor sports, but over the intervening years, the gym became inadequate to house competitive basketball contests and the basketball team moved to the Convention Hall, playing in the Mark Price Arena. For sev- eral generations, the basketball, volleyball, and wrestling teams have not had a practice or competition venue of their own. In 2016 the citizens of Enid voted for a bond program to pay for the design and construction of a new competitive gymnasium which would also create a new home for the music and theater programs. That same year,
Enid Public Schools hired MA+ Architecture to be the designer for the new Performing Arts and Athletics Center which came to be known as the PAAC.
Once hired, MA+ took part in multiple meetings with faculty and staff to work through a variety of program requirements and design options. Through detailed planning meetings
with the Athletic Director and Coaches, the athletic require- ments were established for
a new gymnasium, wrestling rooms, concessions areas, pom and cheer practice rooms, as well as all the accessory spaces for locker room, coaches’ offices and storage. The reoccurring theme in every facility of this nature is to get as much storage as possible so it became impor- tant to provide the necessary storage to serve the athletic programs.
ARCHITECT
MA+ Architecture
HEATH TATE, AIA 405-525-8806
PROJECT INFORMATION
CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR
Darrell G. Floyd, Ed.D.
COMPLETION DATE
March 31, 2020
GROSS AREA
118,500 sq. ft.
AREA PER STUDENT
28.47 sq. ft.
SITE SIZE
7.45 acres
CURRENT ENROLLMENT
1,902
CAPACITY
4,163
COST PER STUDENT
$6,135.46
COST PER SQ. FT.
$215.55
TOTAL COST
$25,541,924
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