About the School

Helen Caise Wade Elementary, at 1411 Greendale Road, is organized along an east/west axis in a two-story building. The first floor houses preschool, kindergarten, first, and second-grade classrooms along with common areas like the gym, cafeteria, and library. The second floor houses third, fourth, and fifth graders. Resource rooms and additional administrative areas are on both floors for easier student support. The school also features specialty spaces for art, music, and nature studies, a maker space, and two flexible classrooms. It also has a Family Resource Center. 

A two-story building of this size has many advantages:

• It minimizes the amount of land needed.
• It helps to shorten the walking distance to common areas.
• It improves the efficiencies of construction and energy usage.

Additionally, the school has sustainable features such as a geothermal heat pump system, LED lights, occupancy sensors, lighting controls, insulated concrete forms, no-wax flooring finishes, pervious pavers in parking areas, and trees throughout the campus.