LeftField (Warwick HS Projects)

The Warwick High School Projects represent one of the most ambitious, closely watched, and consequential district-wide public school construction programs currently underway in the State of Rhode Island, encompassing the simultaneous construction of two brand-new high schools, a new Toll Gate High School replacing a building constructed in 1972, and a new Pilgrim High School replacing a building constructed in 1963, each designed to accommodate up to 1,150 students and deliver the 21st-century learning environments, modern athletic facilities, arts spaces, career and technical education programs, and community-serving amenities that the students and families of Warwick have long deserved. Funded through Rhode Island’s Department of Education School Building Authority, known as RIDE, with a $350 million voter-authorized bond approved by Warwick residents in 2022, and overseen by LeftField Project Management as Owner’s Project Manager with Saam Architecture leading design for Pilgrim and Saccoccio and Associates leading design for Toll Gate, the Warwick High School Projects are among the largest and most complex simultaneous public high school construction programs in the history of Rhode Island, advancing through active construction with aerial photography tours of both Toll Gate and Pilgrim available publicly and groundbreakings held in June 2025 at both school sites.

The design and construction of the new Toll Gate and Pilgrim High Schools have navigated extraordinary complexity throughout the project’s lifecycle, from the RIDE Stage 3 design development and schematic design process through competitive bidding that delivered encouraging results with steel, concrete, site work, and elevator bids consistently coming in below or at budget projections, to rigorous soil testing and environmental assessment across more than 40 borings at the Pilgrim site, to a complete 75% redesign of the Toll Gate building to achieve greater construction efficiency while fully preserving the school’s educational program, to the ongoing management of contingency budgets and real-time communication with the Warwick School Committee and School Building Committee through frequent public forums, special committee meetings, and a dedicated project website that has provided the Warwick community with a transparent and accessible record of every major project milestone. LeftField’s senior project manager Chris Spiegel, a principal voice throughout the project’s public communication, has been widely credited by Warwick school officials and community leaders for the professionalism, transparency, and candor with which LeftField has navigated a project whose complexity has been amplified by one of the most challenging post-pandemic construction cost environments in recent memory, during which new school building construction costs rose as much in two years as they had in the previous eleven years combined.

The new high schools will each feature advanced academic spaces, athletic facilities including indoor and outdoor athletics, career and technical education spaces designed to complement Toll Gate’s existing Career and Technical Center, arts facilities, student commons areas, dining spaces, and modern building systems delivering comfort, energy efficiency, and air quality that the aging 1960s and 1970s facilities could never provide. The project has included an extensive and ongoing community engagement program with multiple special public forum meetings, site logistics planning, aerial video tours of both construction sites published to the project website, a comprehensive FAQ covering budget, schedule, athletics, arts, career tech education, funding, and site logistics, and a sustained commitment to transparency that reflects LeftField’s model of community-centered public school construction project management across their now $4 billion-plus portfolio of school construction projects in the Northeast.

As the Owner’s Project Manager simultaneously managing two of the largest and most complex active high school construction sites in Rhode Island, LeftField needed a professionally designed, multi-project, construction-phase-forward project website serving as the central community resource for the Warwick High School Projects, hosting aerial construction tours of both Toll Gate and Pilgrim, site logistics plans, meeting documentation, document library resources, project schedules, and a comprehensive FAQ for the City of Warwick, Warwick Public Schools, the Warwick School Building Committee, and the broader Warwick community throughout a multi-year construction program. Our web design and development team built a clean, multi-site, community-facing construction project website tailored specifically for Owner’s Project Managers, Rhode Island RIDE SBA-funded simultaneous dual high school construction programs, and school building committees managing large-scale, high-scrutiny public school construction in active urban communities, powered by AI-driven digital growth strategies built for the public construction and municipal sector.

If you lead a construction project management firm, Owner’s Project Manager practice, school building committee, or any construction and public sector organization managing simultaneous multi-site RIDE-funded or MSBA-funded high school construction programs in Rhode Island or Massachusetts and are looking for a web design and digital growth partner that understands the community transparency, multi-site construction communication, budget contingency narrative, and RIDE documentation demands of large-scale, simultaneously executed public high school construction, this project is a compelling example of how expert web development and AI-powered growth services can serve your program’s complete community communication needs, sustain public trust through a complex and extended multi-site construction period, and position your construction management firm as the most experienced and capable OPM for large-scale, district-wide public high school construction across New England.