With the facility capacity stretched by the rising number of students at the school, Beacon Heights Elementary was torn down and re-built to accommodate the population growth and to update the facility. The elementary school includes two stories; the bottom story is a walk-out basement. It has 20 classrooms, specialty music and resource rooms, a media center with a library and a multi-purpose room. A special Child Behavioral Therapy Unit (CBTU) has its own separate section apart from all other rooms in the building.

The steel structure is covered in glass and brick veneer, which creates an open and bright atmosphere intended to enhance students’ learning. Layton also constructed an asphalt playground and playing field on the nine-acre lot and a fractured fin concrete retaining wall that surrounds the facility at over 1,000 linear feet.

Residents living near the site were pleased with its cleanliness and the consideration Layton showed during construction. To address residents’ concerns, Layton conducted neighborhood meetings and invited neighbors to visit the site throughout construction.