The Freeport Project Review Board will conduct a site walk this week at Maine Coast Waldorf School, which hopes to build a new high school near its elementary school on Desert Road.

An ambitious renovation of the elementary school already has been approved by the board.

Maine Coast Waldorf School operates its high school at Pineland in New Gloucester. Six students graduated in June.

Cliff Goodall, Project Review Board chairman, said last Thursday that the school presented the board a conceptual drawing for the proposed new addition last month. The new high school would be sized for 35 students plus staff, and would be located across the driveway from the elementary school, Goodall said.

“They’re not that far advanced with their plans,” Goodall said. “They already have expansion of their elementary school approved, and they’re moving ahead with that. Additional parking was part of that expansion.”

Lynne Espy, development director for Maine Coast Waldorf School, said last Friday that the school  will release details of the high school project – which includes a fundraising piece – in coming weeks.

“I’d rather not give any details until we release an official press release because we want all the parents to know first,” Espy said.

Goodall said that new school would be built on what is now old pastureland. The board has no issue with that, but is doing the site walk due to traffic concerns, he said. Goodall said he has not seen detailed plans for the new building, but its footprint probably is not of concern to the board.

“It would have six or seven rooms,” he said. “It doesn’t have a very big footprint.”

The site walk is scheduled for 5 p.m., on Wednesday, July 6.

A total of 250 students attended Maine Coast Waldorf School’s elementary school last year. The expansion approved by the Project Review Board will make room for more students and more activities, as well.

Goodall said that the elementary school will have a classroom addition, an  expanded parking lot and a new athletic field.

“Parking and turnaround facilities are limited,” Goodall said, “and they need that expansion.”

Last August, the former Merriconeag Waldorf School, founded in 1984,  changed its name to Maine Coast Waldorf School.

The sign outside Maine Coast Waldorf School’s elementary school campus on Desert Road in Freeport.