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Capacity study warns of growth at Cooper, Stone Creek and Wynter; district to form committees for facility planning
Summary
Consultant RSP told the Derby Board of Education the district should expect enrollment growth over the next five years, with capacity pressures at Cooper, Stone Creek and Wynter (middle/elementary). The board will begin committee work and a Sept. 29 workshop to consider early learning, CTE, natatoriums and innovative spaces.
Rob Schwartz, an RSP consultant working with Derby Public Schools, told the Board of Education on Sept. 22 that the district’s enrollment is forecast to rise over the next five years and that several elementary and middle-school buildings will face capacity pressures.
Schwartz said the capacity analysis in the consultant’s packet shows particular constraints at Cooper, Stone Creek and Wynter (the transcript spelling varied). He told the board the study uses a functional-capacity methodology that distinguishes core classrooms, elective/noncore spaces and program-specific rooms (special education, ELL, music) and that the way those rooms are used materially lowers effective capacity compared with a simple classroom-count method.
“Functionally that we can provide the right programming with the way the…
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