Section Five
D e m o g r a p h i c s
Livingston Union School District | Facilities Master Plan
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Classroom Inventory October 2016
Introduction and Report Structure
District Policies that Affect Capacity
The purpose of this Classroom Inventory is to analyze the pupil capacity of the
Livingston Union School District’s (District) school sites for planning purposes.
The site capacities in this Inventory are being used for comparative planning
purposes and include adjustments for factors that affect a site’s actual capacity
such as room usage policies, loading standards, and grade configurations.
The capacity of a school site is determined by (1) counting the number of classrooms on the site, (2) multiplying each by the appropriate loading standard (the
maximum number of students placed in a room), and (3) making adjustments to
account for District policies that affect capacity.
CONTENT/ORGANIZ ATION
The Inventory is organized in the following structure:
District Policies that Affect Capacity
Inventory
Appendix
The District Policies that affect capacity section identifies the District’s room use
policies, student loading by grade level, and grade configurations. The Inventory
section identifies the current (2015-16) classrooms and their uses at each site
and incorporates the District’s policies in determining the pupil capacity of each
site. The room-by-room inventory tables can be found in a seperate Appendix to
this document.
BASIS
The current inventories are based on site maps, summary data and discussions
with District staff.
ROOM USE POLIC Y
The District currently operates pull-out type programs (i.e., students leave
their regular classroom and occupy space in another classroom during the
pull-out program). Some examples of pull-out type programs that are present
in the District are Computer Labs, Academic Clinicians, Music Rooms, Labs
and Resource Specialist Programs. The rooms used for these programs are not
counted in calculating site capacities because they do not contribute to the
effective capacity of the school.
LOADING STANDARDS
Table 1 lists the loading standards for all classrooms provided by the District.
Classrooms with combined grade levels are loaded at the higher loading
standard.
TABLE 1 : LOADING STANDARDS
Grade Group
Grade TK-3
Grades 4-6
Grades 7-8
Special Day Class (SDC)
Loading Standards*
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13
*District loading at TK-8, State loading at SDC
PORTABLE CL ASSROOMS
Portable classrooms have been installed at various school sites in the District to
provide additional classroom space where there is shortage. However, portable
classrooms may not be desirable as a long term or permanent means to house
students. Therefore, the capacity provided by these portable classrooms has
been highlighted in this analysis.
GRADE CONFIGURATIONS
Table 2 identifies each of the current schools operated by the District and the
grade levels currently served at those schools.
TABLE 2: CURRENT GRADE LEVEL CONFIGURATIONS
Site
Campus Park Elementary
Selma Herndon Elementary
Yamato Colony Elementary
Livingston Middle
Grade Levels Served
TK-5
TK-5
TK-5
6-8
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