Coram Deo Academy Seeks to Purchase Flower Mound Campus

After six years of growing and searching, CDA may have found a permanent home for its Flower Mound area schools. CDA seeks to purchase the fifteen-acre Church at Wichita Creek campus in Flower Mound. The beautifully treed property includes a pond, borders on a permanent green belt and low-density housing and sits across the street from a Church. It currently includes enough building space to house one of the two schools. There CDA could develop additional space to house its entire Flower Mound area kindergarten through twelfth grade program with thirty classrooms, gymnasium and assembly space for six hundred, outdoor educational opportunities, recreation and practice fields and administrative space. Many of us have prayed for this opportunity since the school's inception.

Two months ago, The Church at Wichita Creek, located less than five minutes west of the 2499/3040 intersection at 4900 Wichita Trails, offered to sell its campus to Coram Deo. Since then we have arrived at terms and conditions for the sale/purchase, designed and presented a proposed campus concept to The Town of Flower Mound and obtained preliminary commitment for financing the purchase. The Church announced the signing of the Letter of Intent between CDA and The Church Sunday April 10. The membership will pray, discuss and think about the sale for a few weeks before making a final decision to sign a Sale/Purchase Agreement. Prior to the end of this school year Coram Deo Academy will announce the conclusion and its practical affect on the upcoming academic year. It is possible one or both of the current Lower and Upper Schools presently located just outside Flower Mound will relocate to the new campus this summer for classes in August.

The campus currently includes two entrances, one off Skillern and one off Wichita Trails, parking and circulation for about one hundred fifty automobiles, a recreation field, and enough buildings for one of the two schools. The nineteen thousand two square feet (SF) of building space consists of a six thousand seven hundred SF multipurpose recreation space/auditorium, an eleven thousand two hundred SF classroom, dining and administrative facility and a one thousand three hundred SF house converted for administrative space. If Coram Deo Academy can locate temporary classrooms on the site, both schools could locate on one campus in the near future prior to permanent campus development.

By cooperating with natural assets of the site and employing elements of professional planning the proposed campus would maximize the enjoyment of the site as a private school. In March Coram Deo Academy retained Campus Planner, Landscape Architect and Washington State University Professor of Landscape Architecture, Phillip S. Waite and Von Beougher, PE, G & A Consultants who developed an aesthetically pleasing conceptual campus plan that satisfies CDA and Town of Flower Mound requirements. The Academy would plan with the financial assistance of its constituency to design and develop the fifteen-acre campus to house six hundred students, faculty and staff. CDA would build an additional twenty classrooms and studios (for a total of thirty), a library, offices, and a larger gymnasium/assembly space. The design would define campus edges, enhance entrances, landscaping and water features, provide a tower and pedestrian plaza at the campus center, a full sized playfield and reconfigure drives and parking. The proposed campus plan would add delight to the educational experience and permanence and stature in the community.

We seek His glory and the expansion of His Kingdom through the acquisition and development of this campus. We ask for your prayers for fulfillment of God's will.

Rodney J. Marshall, Headmaster

April 11, 2005