Hector P Garcia Middle School

A brief overview of Dallas Independent School District’s Hector P Garcia Middle School designed by Perkins+Will in 2004/2005 and completed in 2007. Supporting and encouraging practical lifelong skills, the Hector P Garcia Middle School offers flexible learning environments for classroom instruction, sciences, technology, and world languages for traditional, interdisciplinary, and project-based instruction. The building is situated to maximize north daylighting, while limiting solar exposure on the east and west facades. The school’s architectural design expresses the social organization of the program and creates an appropriate climatic response to the environment. Aesthetically, the school expresses the forward-looking educational program while reflecting Dallas’ tradition of regional modernism. Hector P Garcia Middle School is LEED® Certified.