The Need for a New School Building A decade ago, we started to happily witness the number of Aregnazan students multiply manyfold to the extent that we had to take immediate, short-term measures to be able to open our hearts and doors to the larger-than-anticipated flow of new students. We filled our classrooms to the brim, turned teachers’ rooms into classrooms and rented additional rooms in a business center across the street. And yet, it is with sadness that every year we still have to turn down dozens of applicants due to lack of additional space.
Correspondingly, our school building has now become a very cramped space, with nearly 700 students accommodated in a total area of 1981 m2 , leaving each student with a mere 3.5 m2 of classroom, communal and activity areas.
This prompted the school administration to look for a larger, more adequate school campus.For that purpose, we are planning to move forward with our dream of building a school campus in Kasakh, a village adjacent to Yerevan.
A lucky turn of events happened in 2017, when we were gifted a plot of land of 2.6 hectares in Kasakh, right on the outskirts of Yerevan. It is there that we are envisioning the new buildings of our school to come to life! Since then and thanks to additional in-kind gifts of Aregnazan friends, parts of the land have been covered in trees and an agricultural kiosk has been already built!
For the first time in the history of Aregnazan Waldorf School, we now own our land, gifted generously by members of the Aregnazan Community. And now we are raising funds to help us build the new school building that will accommodate the diverse educational, developmental and social programs unique to the Waldorf curriculum.
We are excited to announce that thanks to the donations from generous friends, we are approaching to making our dream a reality. You, too, are welcomed to contribute and help us achieve our financial goals.
The new school campus will have an area of 2.6 hectares, of which 2395 m2 will be occupied by the school building.
The school campus will have a vegetable garden, an orchard and a park area, along with areas dedicated for arts and crafts classes.
The new campus will function as the second branch of Aregnazan, while the existing school on 23rd Saryan Str. will stay as the main school.
The Kasakh campus will initially function with a single stream of classes, from the 1st grade up to the 12th grade.