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District use-and-utilization analysis: MPS operating at roughly 65% of ideal building capacity
Summary
Staff told the Committee that MPS’s Use & Utilization study finds district enrollment (28,225) versus building design enrollment (43,369) and that, on average, the district is operating at about 65% of the enrollment its buildings would support; staff quantified underutilized and efficient buildings by grade band.
Minneapolis Public School District staff presented Use & Utilization modeling at the Nov. 26 Committee of the Whole meeting, reporting an unofficial Oct. 1, 2024 enrollment of 28,225 compared with a building design enrollment of 43,369. Staff summarized the district-level finding: “On average, at a district wide scale we are operating at 65% of the enrollment that our buildings would support ideally.”
The presentation broke results down by grade band and utilization category. Slides indicate the district’s buildings include 29 underutilized sites, 25 categorized as efficient and 2 as highly efficient across elementary, middle and high school grade bands. Staff also noted the minimum resident-student counts required to reach districtwide efficiency thresholds: about 30,358 students for all buildings to be “efficient” (a +4% market-share of resident children) and about 39,032 students for all buildings to be “highly efficient” (+20% market-share).
Staff emphasized the Use & Utilization analysis excludes Alternative Learning Centers, Federal Setting IV special education sites, early learning centers and closed or leased sites (Cooper, Lincoln, Hamilton) because those programs have unique models not comparable to standard building design enrollment. Staff framed the analysis as a modeling tool to inform priority-based budgeting and program alignment, not as an immediate closure or consolidation decision.
The district said the analysis and underlying building reports will be published to the Transformation website the day after the meeting for stakeholders to review.
