6921P Procedures

Procedure No. 6921P

Section: 6000 - Management Support

Educational Specifications

Educational specifications are written after consultation with appropriate staff, consultants and citizens. The content of a set of educational specifications would include all or part of the following items:

• A statement of the educational philosophy as it pertains to the specific construction project.

• Community and School Characteristics:

  • The plan of organization and expected enrollments of the school:

    • Grade levels; and

    • Maximum expected enrollments with trends and projections, if necessary.

  • The construction plan for the facility is it to be a new facility, an addition, or a phased program leading to a complete facility?

  • Special services to be provided:

    • Guidance programs;

    • Social worker's programs;

    • Provisions for exceptional children; and

    • Others.

  • The special provisions needed for community use:

    • Cooperative park/school arrangement;

    • Parent-teacher associations;

    • Community athletic programs; and

    • Others.

  • The extent that adults shall use this facility;

  • The extent to which students shall be transported and the facilities that must be included to handle this service adequately;

  • The cafeteria services to be provided and the maximum number likely to be served;

  • The policy regarding multiple use of spaces; and

  • Other pertinent data relating to the project.

  Site Characteristics:

• Site considerations necessary for this project:

  • Site size and location defined; and

  • Recommended building orientation; service drives; parking requirements for staff, students, and public; sidewalk and other approaches; outside lighting.

• Requirements of the Physical Plant:

  • Instructional functions and spaces required. A statement of instructional purposes is to precede the description of each area:

    • Number of spaces required by function; and

    • The relationships of these spaces.

  • The noninstructional spaces required. Each space to be described by function and spaces required;

  • Relationships of spaces required:

    • Inter-relationship between instructional areas;

    • Relationship between instructional and noninstructional spaces; and

    • Relationship of spaces to site.

  • Environmental factors should be described in terms of educational relationships or concerns.

• Additional information or comments as necessary to further interpret the educational program.