Appendix C - Education Suitability Score Report
Introduction
The Wyoming School Facilities Commission (SFC) has developed an assessment of Education Functionality of its school buildings. This facility assessment will help the SFC and the Wyoming's school districts to understand how well the school facility support the ability to deliver a quality educational program begin cognitive of the districts' delivery of those programs.
The results of this assessment will be used by the SFC and Wyoming school districts to assist in the development of a Needs Prioritization Index to help identify where there are school facility issues in the stat and begin the process of identifying potential remedies. The Needs Prioritization Index utilizes three pieces of information about school facilities including a Facility Condition Score. Enrollment-to-Capacity Score, and the Education Functionality Score.
A. School Building Areas and Activities
The Functionality Assessment looks at the different areas of the school building based on a variety of activities. For purposes of this assessment, these activity areas are grouped together into broad categories. These categories include:
* Site
* Technology & Communications
* Administration & Support
* Student Dining
* Health & Physical Education
* Custodial & Maintenance
* Common Spaces
* General Learning Spaces
* Special Education
* Library & Media
* Arts & Performing Arts
* Applied Lab Learning (e.g., science, career-technical education, etc.)
B. Functionality Characteristics
The Functionality Assessment looks at several functionality characteristics of the building as a whole, its site, and the individual activity areas. The primary functionality characteristics observed in the assessment include:
A. Safety, Security, & Supervision
1. Accessible, clear sight lines
2. Windows and doors are securable
B. Space Appropriateness
1. Space if appropriately sized for the activity
2. Teacher staff have workspace
C. Environmental Conditions
1. Lighting
2. Acoustics
3. Heating, Cooling, & Ventilation
4. Flexibility of the space
5. Student personalization
D. Utilities, Fixed Equipment, Surfaces, and Storage
1. Chalkboards, whiteboards, smartboards, and projector screens
2. Storage
3. Flooring materials
4. Wall materials
5. Availability and placement of electrical outlets
Additional functionalities will be assessed that are specific to the different areas when appropriate.
C. Assessment Scoring Methodology
Throughout the functionality assessment, the assessment team will use a four-point scale to score the criteria. As a way to anchor the assessment, the four-point scale provides some guidance as to the nature of the remedy to some key functionality indicators. This four-point scale is:
4 = EXCELLING: DESIGN AND STRUCTURE FACILITATES TEACHING AND LEARNING; SUPPORTS THE ABILITY TO DELIVER A QUALITY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
3 = ACCOMMODATIONS IDENTIFIED TO BE ADDRESSED: PRIMARILY "DESIGN" ISSUES; MAY REQUIRE MINOR DESIGN OR STRUCTURAL CHANGES AS A REMEDY
2 = MODIFICATIONS IDENTIFIED TO BE ADDRESSED: DETRACTING FROM TEACHING AND LEARNING MAY REQUIRE MAJOR DESIGN OR STRUCTURAL CHANGES AS A REMEDY; HEALTH & SAFETY NEGATIVELY IMPACTED
1 = SIGNIFICANT MODIFICATIONS IDENTIFIED TO BE ADDRESSED: SIGNIFICANT DETRACTIONS TO TEACHING AND LEARNING; PROBABLY REQUIRES MAJOR STRUCTURAL CHANGES AS A REMEDY; HEALTH & SAFETY ISSUES PRESENT SERVERE NEGATIVE IMPACT
As the assessment team finds that the functionally of a given criteria could be improved to better support the delivery of a quality educational program, the assessor will perform a first-order approximation of the type of remedy that would be needed to improve the education functionality of that criteria within that space. The assessment is incomplete without an approximation of the nature of the remedy associated with scores of 2 or less.
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