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Bray Architects presents capacity study; Onalaska board says study is a planning tool, not a closure plan
Summary
Bray Architects told the Onalaska School District board that an "educational capacity" analysis shows elementary capacity between 572 and 653 students and high-school utilization near a 75% target; the board heard the report and was urged to use it as a planning baseline rather than a recommendation to close or reconfigure buildings.
The Onalaska School District board heard a facilities capacity briefing May 11 from Matt Wolford of Bray Architects, who said the firm’s work measures ‘‘educational capacity’’—how buildings serve current programs and schedules—rather than the larger building-code occupancy numbers.
Wolford told the board that the elementary-level educational capacity for the district is roughly 572 to 653 students, and that middle- and high-school capacity modeling uses a utilization assumption (about 75 percent) to reflect specialty-room scheduling. ‘‘This is an educational capacity study, not code capacity,’’ Wolford said. He…
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