Photo courtesy Boyd Jones

Hillside Elementary School

Omaha

Award of Merit

Submitted by: Boyd Jones

Owner: Westside Community Schools

Lead Design Firm: Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture

General Contractor: Boyd Jones

Civil Engineer: Lamp Rynearson

Structural Engineer: TD2

Mechanical Engineer: Morrissey Engineering

Owner’s Representative: Project Advocates

The Hillside Elementary School, built in 1954, had reached the end of its useful life, despite multiple upgrades over the years. In 2024, work began on a $22-million replacement. The 66,000-sq-ft school is organized into two sections connected by a corridor, with three grade-level branches, adaptable classrooms, collaboration spaces and an integrated OneWorld School-Based Health Center that offers year-round care to students across two districts.

Work on the new building progressed on the original Hillside site—in a residential neighborhood and adjacent to a private high school—while classes continued at the existing school.…