A new purpose-built middle school on district-owned Oylear Field — designed around how middle school students actually learn, collaborate, and connect. Built in Phase 2 once the Phase 1 levy retires.
The new middle school on district-owned Oylear Field is designed from the ground up for the way middle school students actually learn today — highly collaborative, relationship-driven, and student-centered. The design is ready. The site is reserved. The funding path is clear.
Renderings by Lombard Conrad Architects — Pre-Bond Conceptual Package, July 2025. Preliminary and subject to change.
The design process began with extensive listening across the district — eight group meetings, staff surveys, a facility tour, and student engagement. Five design themes emerged:
Strong indoor/outdoor connections, community-accessible gathering spaces, and design reflecting Moscow's culture and outdoor identity.
Adaptable classrooms, flexible breakout spaces, shared interdisciplinary learning zones, and infrastructure capacity for future technology and programming changes.
Counseling and decompression spaces with acoustic separation, natural light throughout primary learning spaces, and comfortable student gathering areas.
Expanded makerspaces, podcast/media production environments, robust CTE and applied learning space, and performing arts support.
Reduced and controlled access points, zoned after-hours community circulation, passive supervision through visibility, and durable maintainable materials.
Building the new middle school would require its own voter-approved measure. The likely mechanism:
The Phase 1 levy, the existing bond, and the elementary lease-to-purchase all retire. The district would then bring a replacement Phase 2 Plant Facility Levy to voters as a separate election.
Architect selection, design development, and permitting for the new middle school on Oylear Field. Community input shapes the final design.
New middle school construction at Oylear Field. The Lombard Conrad design concept guides the program — final design refined through the permitting process.
Middle school students would move from 402 E. 5th Street to the new Oylear Field campus — approximately 9 years from Phase 1 levy passage and 2 years from Phase 2 levy passage. 402 E. 5th Street would then be vacated and offered for sale.
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The estimated average annual cost to the taxpayer on the proposed levy is a tax of $280 per $100,000 of taxable assessed value, per year, based on current conditions.
The proposed levy would be assessed for 7 years.