Stanley British Primary School is planning a curtain call for the swimming pool located on its Lowry campus.
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Lowry Swim Club previously operated the pool on Stanley’s campus for approximately 25 years through a longstanding partnership, but the decision by Stanley British to not renew the swim club’s lease was announced back in April. The club’s final day of operation took place earlier this month.
The private school has proposed a new arts and community building, complete with a stage and auditorium. It would replace the existing pool house and swimming pool.
“The project would … create an inviting new center of campus life and strengthen the sense of connection and belonging that has always been central to the Stanley experience,” Sumant Bhat, head of school at Stanley British, said in a written statement to BusinessDen.
Stanley serves students from pre-K on through eighth grade. The proposed 16,400-square-foot building would be in the interior of the school’s campus, which sits just east of Quebec Street between 3rd and 5th avenues.
Three classrooms, two for music and one for art, are planned. An outdoor amphitheater is also envisioned as part of the project.
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Stanley is working with the architecture firm Semple Brown, which helped plan out the 11-acre campus on a portion of the former Lowry Air Force Base when Stanley moved to the site from 13th Avenue and Quebec Street in the 1990s.
“We are especially proud that the lead project manager for this work is a Stanley alumna,” Bhat said.
Stanley was founded in 1972 by Carolyn Hambidge, a British-born educator. Its model is built on Hambidge’s own experience from across the pond. The school has a low student-to-teacher ratio (usually five to one), multi-age classrooms, limited technology use for younger students and an emphasis on students choosing the topics they learn.
Tuition at the school runs between $27,500 and $30,000 annually, depending on age. A quarter of all students receive financial assistance, according to its website.
Stanley’s tax filings for 2025 show the school made $16.3 million in revenue last year, compared with $14.9 million in expenditures.
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