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Pattonsburg School Case Study

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Pattonsburg school district is growing. The number of students in the area continues to grow larger each year. The community has seen this rapid growth and decided it was time to vote for an addition to the school. After reviewing the recent enrollment numbers, it was discovered that there has been about a 13 percent increase in students over the past five years. This vote took place at the end of the 2016 school year and construction work began in October. The current building is made up of simply domes. The new addition for cost reasons, will not be a dome. Benny Sprague, the school’s maintenance worker and bus driver stated, “I think many of the faculty members and students will like this better, mainly because the addition will have windows.” …show more content…

The plan is to purchase new doors for all around the school that will require all the faculty members to obtain a key fob to enter. Also, certain doors will be ran on timers that will only open for 5 minutes between classes. Sprague said, “This is to stop a lot of student traffic from going in and out of the building.” Also, the ceilings have been lowered and all of the lights have been switched to LED, this is to decrease costs in lighting, heating, and cooling the building.
The new building will include the superintendent’s office, the superintendent’s secretary’s office, a new art room, band room, preschool classroom, library, and an extra room for board meetings or if another classroom is needed for any reason. Sprague said, the old band room will be a new weight room, the preschool trailer will be sold, and the library will be storage for the kitchen and anything else necessary. It is undecided at the moment what will be done with the old offices of the superintendent and secretary.
This project is predicted to be done in a few short months. Sprague stated that, “The school is supposed to take possession of the new addition on July 5, meaning the building should be done around

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