FC-R – Building Accommodations

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Guidelines for Dealing with Declining Enrollment
  1. Establish enrollment histories and project enrollment figures.
  2. Target those schools, attendance areas or planning zones which have experienced a decline in enrollment and are projected to continue to decline in enrollment.
  3. Estimate and define scope and nature of the situation. Are there any unique considerations which solve the issues of declining enrollment?
  4. Formalize an information process
    1. Alert the schools involved
    2. Inform the community
    3. Seek community involvement and participation
    4. Consider implementing a school community census
    5. Establish an ad hoc committee which should have representation of:
      1. Parents from the entire Cherry Creek community
      2. Community representation
      3. Building staff
      4. District staff
  5. Charge the committee with the study of the following:
    1. Programmatic factors/issues
      1. What is a quality baseline program?
      2. Special areas, i.e., music, art, media, physical education, special services
      3. Administration
      4. Optional program structuring and staffing designs, i.e., multi-grade level grouping, shared personnel
    1. Enrollment factors/issues
      1. Enrollment study-history and projections
      2. Enrollment range minimum to maximum for quality baseline programs
    1. Sociological factors/issues
      1. Effects upon neighborhood
      2. Population location
      3. Safety/convenience/centrality of facility location
      4. Impact on family structure
    1. Financial factors/issues
      1. Transportation
      2. Maintenance and operation
      3. Energy costs
      4. Administrative and staff costs
      5. Equal educational opportunities
      6. Local, state and federal financial constraints
    1. Political factors/issues
      1. Community awareness
      2. Community involvement in decision-making process
    1. Legal factors/issues
      1. Federal, state and local county and city laws and regulations
      2. Board policies
    1. Unique factors/issues ​
      1. Special qualities or facilities unique to the school, i.e., age and conditions of facility
      2. Location
      3. Alternative uses of buildings available, i.e., sell, rent, community center, satellite administration building, alternative programs, consolidation
  1. Make recommendations to the Long-Range Facility Planning Committee based upon study of all the relevant issues. The recommendations must include but not be limited to any of the following:
    1. Boundary changes
    2. Consolidation
    3. Transportation/busing
    4. Closure
    5. Reallocation, restructuring, year-round and new construction
Adoption Date: January 12, 1981
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