In 2001, we launched an initiative to provide our community with the facilities it needs to do its best work, to experience a greater sense of unity, and to accommodate our future plans. This endeavor was to build a new school on 123 acres in Newtown Square. In August of 2008 we opened the school year in our new home. One of the finest day school campuses in the country, the facilities will allow our academic, athletic, and arts programs to flourish and stay at the forefront of curricular development and expansion for decades to come.
Some of the highlights of Episcopal’s new campus include:
Lower School
- A large multipurpose room can be used for Lower School Chapel, physical education, drama, and community gatherings
- 25 large classrooms
- A Lower School library that includes a story room and two computer labs
- The Lower School has three music rooms, two art rooms, two science labs with their own prep-storage room, two commons areas, a kitchen, a drama room, a Spanish classroom, a religion classroom, a conference room, and offices for various specialists
Middle School
- A two-story study hall that will double as a community gathering space
- 22 large classrooms
- Two breakout spaces, various administrative offices, and a conference room
Upper School
- A class commons and group study room on each floor
- Offices for each academic discipline and 25 classrooms
- A language lab, Honor Hall, a technology center, various administrative offices, and a conference room
Arts
- Two theaters; a 600-seat main theater with balcony and intimate black box theater
- Projection room, ticket office, dressing rooms, costume room, prop room, and coat room
- Scene shop and wood shop, Middle School studio, Upper School studio, advanced studio, ceramics studio, and computer graphics studio
- Instrumental music room, a choral room, and five music practice studios
Science Center
- Three-story building with a center atrium
- A weather station on the center’s roof
- The bottom floor has four Middle School labs, two prep rooms, and a greenhouse
- The second floor contains the science office, four Upper School earth science and biology labs, and two prep rooms
- The top floor has two chemistry labs, two physics labs, and two prep rooms.
Campus Center
- Offices for Head of School, Admission, College Guidance, Technology, Business Office, External Programs, Communications, and Community Outreach and Service Learning
- The Roger Annenberg Library
- Tierney Hall, which houses the dining facilities for all students and includes a separate space for Lower School students
- The Episcopal Academy Art Gallery, which showcases student and alumni art as well as work from local artists
Athletic Center
- A hardwood-floor competition gym that seats 1,200 spectators
- A 4,000-sq.-ft. fitness center, a dance studio, a wrestling room, a canteen, and room for a rowing tank
- Middle School and Upper School locker rooms, six visiting team rooms, male and female coaches’ locker rooms, an official’s room, a treatment and training room, and five team rooms
- A six-lane, 35-meter pool with seating for 250 spectators; it has two movable bulkheads that are flexible enough for water polo, swimming, diving, and instructing young children
- 10 glass-walled international squash courts complete with a spectator arcade
- An 18,000-square-foot field house with a composite rubberized floor that can be utilized for a variety of sports
Chapel