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PreK–8 building committee reviews educational "heat map," flags program trade‑offs and next steps
Summary
At its Aug. 12 meeting, Southborough's PreK–8 School Building Committee reviewed an educational 'heat map' of options for reconfiguring grades and buildings, identified program-space trade‑offs in several scenarios and said the school department will supply detailed room‑by‑room mapping to the school committee in early September.
The PreK–8 School Building Committee convened Aug. 12 to review an educational “heat map” that maps how several building‑configuration options would meet district program standards and to set next steps for detailed room and staffing analyses.
The committee’s education working group presented a color‑coded matrix showing where each option meets criteria, where tradeoffs exist and where buildings “do not meet” the district’s stated standards for class size, special programs and services.
The matrix uses the district’s education criteria including class‑size targets (K–2: 20 students; grades 3–5: 22; middle school: 22–24), weekly specials (art, music, PE, world language, library), space for English‑language learners and a range of special‑education supports (speech and language, occupational and physical therapy, school psychologists and BCBAs). The working group said some options would preserve class sizes and specials but others would force programs onto carts, split specialists across buildings or remove designated quiet lunch spaces.
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