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Business Administrator David Oliveira previews renovations at Piscataway High School’s Susan B. Anthony building
Summary
David Oliveira, the district’s business administrator, outlines renovations at Piscataway High School’s Susan B. Anthony building, including two new STEM classrooms, a repurposed 700 sq ft conference and office area, a nurse’s office and a media center being converted into a digital hub and e‑sports center.
Business Administrator David Oliveira said the Piscataway Township School District is completing renovations at Piscataway High School’s Susan B. Anthony building that add classroom, counseling and administrative space while modernizing the school’s facilities.
Oliveira told viewers the work includes two new STEM classrooms for computer science and engineering, an expanded principal’s office suite, and a nurses suite added earlier in the project. He said an outdated stairway linking the first-floor media center and the second-floor principal’s suite was removed to reclaim roughly 700 square feet for a new conference room and two offices that supplement principals’ and counselors’ existing space.
The conference room is fitted with multimedia equipment and is already being used for student meetings, staff meetings and counseling conferences. A district staff member said counselors are running student groups in the new space and that larger meetings can now be hosted there.
Oliveira described the new STEM classrooms as modern, 21st-century learning spaces with movable seating and tables, interactive Promethean boards, multiple whiteboards, 3D printers and teacher workstations; he added creative storage was designed to maximize usable classroom area. A staff member said an obsolete, reconfigured room was large enough to be converted into a state-of-the-art engineering classroom and an adjacent nurse’s office.
The largest element of the project, Oliveira said, is remaking the high school’s media center into a modern digital hub and e-sports center; he said that portion of the work is nearing completion and will be shown in a future episode of the district’s Building for the Future series. He also noted that these investments across the high school and the district’s pre-K–8 schools are being completed “without a referendum or any bonded debt to our district.”
The district did not specify the funding sources beyond Oliveira’s statement that no referendum or bonded debt was used. Oliveira closed by saying modernized facilities are intended to ensure students receive a cutting-edge education and that the district will highlight remaining work in upcoming videos.
