McHenry Community High School

McHenry Community High School: A State of the Art Science Center

When McHenry Community High School in McHenry, Illinois needed a modern update to match the needs of their high-performing students, they worked with Molly Cox and Kim Diaz of MooreCo’s space planning team. McHenry is no ordinary school. Its large, industrial facility boasts 70,000 square feet of space for science, technology, and industry. With over 80 athletic and extracurricular teams, the student body of McHenry consists of busy and gifted learners with a need for spaces that can keep up with their advanced studies. McHenry offers over 33 AP and dual credit pathways for students to prepare for higher learning and the workforce, so their facilities need to match the look and feel of a real-world contemporary workspace in the digital age. But because they are still young students, this sense of work needed to be balanced with a youthful playfulness and a sense of school spirit…