Thomas Wallace, Jr. Middle School
Vineland, NJ

Construction Completed: September 2006

Construction funding for this project was provided by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.


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The Wallace Middle School was one of two new middle schools identified as key components of the Vineland Public School District’s Long Range Facilities Plan.  The completion of this school not only facilitated smaller class sizes in all the district’s middle schools and the return of grade 5 to the elementary schools, but also provided the space necessary to implement an integrated team teaching educational model.

The 119,500 SF facility, which accommodates 624 students in grades 6 through 8, is a two story structure with academic classrooms grouped in two wings of three ‘houses’ each.  Each house consists of three standard academic classrooms, a science lab, a special education classroom and two resource rooms. Common areas include a Media Center, Gymnasium, Auditorium, Cafeteria, Art Room, Music Room and Technology Labs.  Unique to this project is the inclusion of a 16,000 SF central kitchen facility that provides over 15,000 meals per day for over 20 schools throughout the district.

Situated on 26 acres, the school includes a baseball field, multi-purpose fields and a district bus yard for 50 buses.  Special design features include: a curved metal standing seam roof system that was site-formed into full length panels to minimize joints, deep roof overhangs and exterior solar shading devices at windows to  reduce heat gain, academic wings and a central spine are oriented for optimum solar orientation.  Other  green building design techniques include: shallow floor plates, day lit corridors & stairwells, borrowed lites, insulated metal sandwich panels and a closed loop geothermal heating and air conditioning system.
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