Winton Woods North Campus
Client: Winton Woods City Schools
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
  • A new 248,000sf high school designed for students in grades 7-12.
  • Segmented into smaller learning communities with multi-use and digital project labs.
  • 1,500-seat arena with collegiate-sized courts.
  • 850-seat auditorium.
  • Project differentiators include distributed dining, no assigned classrooms and teacher co-work areas.
Design Award: 2023 James D. MacConnell Award (A4LE) — widely recognized as the most prestigious international award for school planning and design
Winton Woods Case Study
Architecture|Interior Design|Master Planning|Visioning|Stakeholder Engagement

A member of the New Tech Network, Winton Woods City Schools is one of the first in the nation to implement a K-12 project-based learning model. The design of the North Campus delivers personalized, unique learning environments to meet its project-based learning model and four stakeholder themes uncovered during a community engagement process: Eat & Learn, Show & Tell, Community & Culture, and Inside Out.

"SHP helped our schools create and curate the vision for educational delivery for the next fifty years."
– Steve Denny, Superintendent
"Thank you, SHP, for being leaders in building 21st Century educational spaces for students and staff to enjoy for many years to come."
– Anthony Smith, Former Superintendent
"The extensive facility is divided into a series of small learning communities. Each featuring an varied assortment of high fidelity learning environments. Though it might seem enormous, students easily settle into their place."
– Jeff Parker, Director of Visioning, SHP