Bullis has a storied history, and at every stage of our evolution since 1930, we have always put students at the center of what we do.
Nearly a century after our founding, we are launching Elevating Excellence: The Campaign for Bullis.
The success of this campaign will ensure our ability to provide the most transformative learning opportunities possible for our students and raise the profile of Bullis, benefiting past, present, and future students.
We have reached maximum capacity in our current facilities, leading to the sub-optimal flow of students around campus throughout the day–continued over time. Enhancing the Bullis campus will best serve our students by offering exceptional programming in intentionally designed and specifically designated learning spaces.
Elevating Excellence: The Campaign for Bullis will transform the campus by creating dedicated learning spaces for each division, allowing students and faculty to create critical connections, and enhancing the Bullis academic experience for everyone.
Lower schoolers will have a state-of-the-art building designed to maximize their learning—a space they can truly call their own. Fly through the new Lower School building and see the intentionally designed spaces where Bullis’ youngest learners will learn and grow.
The new building will be a modern, light-filled, environmentally friendly beacon of elementary education and features spacious homerooms; a Lower School library; a makerspace; cutting-edge movement, art, music, and science classrooms; space for math and reading specialists; outdoor learning areas; a counselor’s office; a nurse’s office; an administrative suite; and more.
When it’s time for recess, a turf field, two sports courts, and a playground will be hubs for play and community building.
Every space, indoor and outdoor, has been designed to maximize learning and social-emotional wellness. And thanks to the building’s central location, they will be able to convene with older students for cross-divisional learning and community-building activities.
South Hall will be renovated, including the addition of a science lab, and will serve as the home base for the entire Middle School. They will also have a dedicated space in the Marriott Family Library and a makerspace in the Discovery Center.
North Hall will receive design upgrades and necessary improvements to best serve the students and faculty who use the space. Bathrooms, windows, roofing, plumbing, and more will be updated.
The new loop road is a separate yet necessary campus project to accommodate the growth of our school. This new road will increase our capacity for vehicle stacking on interior roads during drop-off and pick-up times and alleviate traffic congestion along public roads.
The Campaign will free up additional learning spaces for Upper School students in the Discovery Center.
Classrooms in the Blair Family Center for the Arts that are currently used by the Middle School will be dedicated to Upper School students.
Classrooms in the Marriott Family Library that are currently used by the Middle School will be dedicated to Upper School students.
Elevating Excellence is a carefully considered, ambitious step in the advancement of Bullis School that will allow us to continue moving forward at the vanguard of K-12 independent education. The goal we have set—$20 million—is ambitious, and we believe strongly that our community is ready for the challenge.
Thanks to our incredibly engaged parents, alumni families, close friends, and institutional stakeholders, Bullis is primed to emerge as one of the preeminent schools in the nation. Now, we are turning to our community to help Bullis reach its full potential. Elevating Excellence: The Campaign for Bullis is critical to the achievement of these goals.
