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This week, St. Matthew’s Parish School announced its Fall 2026 Return to Bienveneda Campus Plan!

Below, Alley Michaelson, SMPS Head of School and Class of ’02, shares more information about the plan including campus renderings, a recording of the presentation for all those who could not attend, and details about registering for the 2026-2027 school year.

Dear St. Matthew’s Parish School Community,

I am excited to share St. Matthew's Parish School's Fall 2026 Return to Bienveneda Campus Plan with you. This plan, a labor of love by so many passionate members of our community, is a thoughtful and strategic response to the needs of our School as we simultaneously continue our larger scale redevelopment and signifies our unwavering commitment to excellence for our students.

I was energized by the tremendous participation at a presentation on October 7 at the Water Garden. The event brought together current families, former Falcon families, parishioners, and the broader St. Matthew’s community. Will McGregor '02, our Campus Development Partner, Terry Bird, Chair of our Return to Bienveneda Committee, Mark Yoshitake '92, Chair of our Falcons Forward Committee, and I were honored to share details of our process, an update on testing, remediation, and safety, and renderings of our standing and temporary structures.

A recording of the presentation can be found at the link below. Additional community events will be held later this month for the St. Matthew’s extended community on October 20th in Montecito, CA and October 22nd in Newport Beach, CA. A comprehensive campus fly-through video will follow in the coming weeks.

Full Recording of October 7 Community Event

RSVP to Montecito and Newport Beach Events

As our Falcons Forward committee conceptualized and delivered this plan, every decision was grounded in a set of core tenets, written in partnership with the School's senior leadership team, to ensure that the St. Matthew's experience our community has valued for over 75 years remains at the forefront.

The Fall 2026 Return to Campus Plan includes visual renderings documenting both the enhanced standing structures and the temporary facilities being developed to ensure continuity and excellence.

This plan is thoughtfully designed to minimize student proximity to construction and preserve the natural beauty and intimate scale that makes St. Matthew’s feel like home.

This strategy allows the School community to function nearly uninterrupted as we work to redevelop the broader campus. Highlights of this renovation include:

The School’s Early Childhood program (Little Falcons, Preschool, and Pre-Kindergarten) as well as the Kindergarten and First Grade, will occupy two new villages of temporary classrooms with age-appropriate playgrounds that will be seamlessly integrated into the campus until new permanent structures are built.
The 400’s Building will host Lower School and receive a full interior remediation and renovation as well as extended outdoor classrooms.
The Booth Science Building (500’s) and Keck Building (600’s) will primarily house our Middle School program. They will see full interior remediation and renovations with new flooring, ceiling, cabinetry, and walls and exterior upgrades in paint, glass, and landscaping.
The Loop Road between the 600’s Building and the 400’s Building as well as the front facing rotunda of the 600’s building will transform into a Campus Path, designed to be an outdoor play space and social piazza for students, free from cars.
We plan to start this set of renovations in January of 2026 and anticipate its completion in September of 2026. We anticipate students being in this configuration for the next two to three years.

Aerial view of Campus

Front Entrance of Sprague Gymnasium

Welcome Nest Entry

Kindergarten and First Grade Mini Campus

Early Childhood Mini Campus

Early Childhood Mini Campus Terrace

Keck 600's Building with Loop Road Gate and the start of the Campus Path

New Extended Outdoor Classrooms in the 400's Building and Campus Path

Student Gathering Spaces along the 400's Corridor

We cannot wait to welcome you back home!

Applications for next school year are now available. To learn more about our academic program and the St. Matthew's experience, please visit our website at www.stmatthewsschool.com and sign up for an Open House.

If you were an enrolled family at St. Matthew's during the Palisades Fire and would like to enroll your child back for the 2026-2027 School Year, please click the "Returning Falcon Families" button.
If you are a new or alumni family interested in applying your child to St. Matthew's for the 2026-2027 School Year, please click the "New Family Application" button.
If you are interested in signing up for our 2-year old Little Falcons program, please click the "Little Falcons Application" button.

Returning Falcon Families

New Family Application

Little Falcons Application

I continue to be inspired by our bright future at St. Matthew’s, thanks to our amazing community's resilience and dedication. Thank you to our Falcons Forward Committee, our Return to Bienveneda Committee and the families, faculty, staff, alumni, parishioners, and friends who continue to support us every step of the way.

Our future will honor our rich history while creating cutting-edge facilities that will serve generations of St. Matthew’s students to come—providing the academic excellence and safe, inspiring learning environment they deserve. This is about more than rebuilding a campus; it's about restoring the heart of our community.

In Partnership,

Alley Michaelson, ‘02
Head of School

St. Matthew's Parish School
1031 Bienveneda Avenue
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

310-454-1350
www.stmatthewsschool.com
Email: info@stmatthewsschool.com

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