Out with the old: Construction at Stoller Middle School nears completion, bringing new classrooms and a gym

Published 5:00 am Thursday, April 17, 2025

Students will say farewell to portable classrooms at Stoller Middle School as a 2022 bond measure continues to pay for improvements throughout the school district.

Voters approved the Beaverton School District’s $723 million capital improvement bond in 2022 to modernize and upgrade schools, including funding new buildings for Beaverton High School and Raleigh Hills Elementary. As part of the bond, a $8.98 million project constructed four new classrooms and a gym at Stoller.

“The school board had voted a while back that we do not want to be using portable school classrooms,” Anne Karel, one of several construction managers overseeing bond projects for the district, said.

Four standard classrooms will replace the portables, Karel said.

“At one time, there were several portables on the site of where the addition has now been built,” Karel said. “The four classrooms will replace the capacity that had been previously provided by portables.”

Stoller Middle School will also get a new auxiliary gymnasium as part of the construction project. The school’s main gym will remain, but the construction of an auxiliary gym will allow the school to expand its physical education programming.

“The number of students at the school justifies having several physical education programs running simultaneously,” she said. “By providing the auxiliary gym, they are able to have physical education ongoing.”

Once finished, the new gym will have basketball hoops and maple flooring.

“Maple flooring is standard for basketball flooring,” Karel said. “You want to have consistency across different courts for performance purposes. It also works really well in terms of its hardness and also its deflection, for preserving joint health when students are jumping and playing.”

Karel said construction is expected to finish May 13. Students won’t begin using the new buildings this school year, but they’ll be open in time for the middle school’s 25th anniversary party.

“The project has gone very smoothly,” she said. “It’s a beautiful building. It modernizes space. It has beautiful daylight in the classrooms.”