Thank you for visiting Riverview Charter School’s Building Blog, and for supporting us as we create a permanent home for our little school!  This blog will be a great source for all the up-to-the-minute news and information on our process and our progress, so please check back frequently.

Riverview’s mission states:

“Riverview’s mission is to create a small, diverse learning community that actively engages students in meaningful and innovative learning experiences. Emphasizing learning by doing, family and community involvement, and engaged citizenship, Riverview is committed to nurturing the whole child and preparing each student for a global society.”

About its permanent facilities, Riverview’s charter states:

“Riverview Charter School seeks to provide a permanent facility that serves those who use it by being: sustainable, safe, efficient, economical, “green,” accessible, flexible, and appropriate. Riverview will meet these objectives in identifiable and measurable ways.

The site will be selected for its location within an area of population, where the community and the school can collaborate in a supportive way. The campus will be designed to create a secure environment, where visitors as well as children and staff are accounted for as they arrive and depart. The facilities will adhere to a carefully studied budget that maximizes benefits and minimizes drawbacks of the choices it requires. The facilities will be designed to achieve a LEED certification level of energy and environmental achievement. The buildings will be in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements, so that they are accessible to all who seek to enter.  The floor plans will be considered so as to allow for ultimate flexibility of programmatic use, and the facades will be created to be in keeping with the vernacular of the area.”

The vision, mission and charter of Riverview must be central to the planning process for the school’s permanent facilities, since these attributes determine how the school must serve its students, and therefore, how the facility must serve the school. 

Riverview is committed to a facility and campus that are truly environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable; relevant today while providing positive investment long into the future, both of the school and of the surrounding community.  While Riverview must carefully respond to its immediate needs, it must also consider that the investment required in a permanent facility places great responsibility to serve not only the Riverview stakeholders of today, but the Riverview stakeholders long into the future.

We are excited to embark on our journey in implementing the physical vision for Riverview Charter School, and we welcome you to join us as we do!