Adams Elementary School

Stockton, California

Stockton Unified School District
Portable Replacement Project
Completed 2022 33,712 sf $19M

Located in North Stockton just south of Benjamin Holt Drive on a ten-acre school site is Adams Elementary School. Like most finger plan schools from the 1950s and 60s, growth at the school was addressed through the installation of portable classrooms, which were intended to be a temporary solution until permanent classrooms could be built. Unfortunately a temporary solution became a permanent one. With the passage of several bond measures, SUSD has a goal to replace portable classrooms at many of its older schools with permanent site-built classroom buildings. Over ten years ago, ARCHITECHNICA designed a prototype back-to-back classroom building with impressive natural light to be adopted into SUSD’s Portable Replacement Program.

Adams is the fourth school in the District to use ARCHITECHNICA's design. As part of this project, 22 portable classroom buildings were replaced with two one-story steel framed classrooms buildings that hold a new school library, two STEM classrooms, and 20 standard classrooms for grades 2 through 8.

In addition to the new two classroom buildings, other improvements to the school include new playgrounds, a parent drop-off parking lot, perimeter site security fencing, and new security and communication systems.