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Consultants: Albert Lea schools have excess capacity; older buildings and projected enrollment decline shape options
Summary
Wold Architects & Engineers told a community task force that many Albert Lea school buildings are older, the district currently has more seats than students and enrollment projections point downward; consultants described their headcount-based capacity method and class-size assumptions used to create ranges for planning.
Wold Architects & Engineers presented a capacity analysis to the Albert Lea task force, saying the district’s building stock is older and that current enrollment levels produce more seats than students. "The average age of buildings in the district is 49 years," Sal, the lead educational planner, told attendees, and he walked members through construction dates, recent renovations and square-foot figures for each campus.
Sal emphasized the study uses headcount rather than ADM and that capacity depends on how space is programmed. "Capacity can change…
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