White Oaks Elementary School

Project: White Oaks Elementary School, San Carlos, CA
Client: San Carlos Elementary School District
Architect: John Carl Warnecke & Associates
Structural Engineers: Hall, Pregnoff & Matheu
Landscape Architects: Eckbo, Royston & Williams
Photographers: Rondal Partridge, (aerial view) R.L. Copeland

Award of Merit, A.I.A. 1954
Award of Merit, American Association of School Administrators, 1954
Design Award, “The School Executive” Better School Design Competition, 1953

“Each classroom unit is to be self-contained, resembling a home as much as possible. Children, on arriving at school, will remain with there teachers throughout the official school session.”

“The unusual corridor covered by a skylight was the solution to the challenges of a small site area, an economical budget and the need for both indoor and outdoor space for classes. A “little Main Street”, the corridor serves as a connecting hall between the eight individual classrooms and provides easy access to individual play areas.”