New Tyee High School Opens its Doors to a New Era
Staff are moving into the new Tyee High School and are excited to welcome students on Titan Day, September 2, and the first day of school, September 3. This 2022 school bond project is on time and on budget.
Furnishing a New Facility
New desks and chairs and the school's Promethean panels were waiting in classrooms to support student learning from math and language arts to environmental studies and health sciences.
Gym floors are striped in Tyee colors and the Tyee Titan's athletic logo.
Machines used in the Core Plus Construction program were arriving for the wood shop.
In her new classroom, Teacher Antje Brewer (right) talks to another Tyee staff member.
Teacher Antje Brewer was especially impressed by the school’s sustainable features, like repurposed wood gym floors now lining the walls outside the new gym. Antje said she appreciated that concrete from the original Tyee was recycled on site as base material under the new school.
Wood glu-lam beams from the original school were installed in the roof deck of the new library. On the roof, a 75-kilowatt solar panel installation will help supply power.
A geothermal loop buried under the new athletic field (240 wells that each descend 350 feet below the field) connects to an electric pump with supply and return pipes, to heat or cool the new building.
Next Steps
Crews are hard at work finishing details on a punch list, including the central courtyard and field landscaping, final cleaning inside, and the paving of the main driveway from South 188th Street.
A community grand opening is being planned for October. More information will be shared soon.
More Photos
Crews work to complete the central courtyard landscaping design.
Photo of Tyee kitchen food servery.
Crew members assembling furniture in the Tyee commons by the large learning stair.
View of new Tyee athletic field and track.
Two staff members work in front of a large scale Tyee High School shield logo in the front office.
Photo looking south from the upper floor of the Tyee commons and cafeteria space.
Tyee teacher Matt Setter gives a thumbs up for the new school.
Two Tyee staff members sit in the wide windowsills overlooking the main gym, beyond the windows.
Athletic staff and assistant principal Don Miller (second from left) pose by decorative wall with original gym floor, outside the new gyms.
Decorative wall leading to the flexible performance space.
View of retractable seating in the performance space.
Exterior view of flexible performance space, which is the southwest corner of the new facility.