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Orange County Schools High School Standards Committee Recommendations(July 17, 1997) The Orange County Schools High School Standards Committee met on July 17, 1997 at the Central Office Board Room and came to the following recommendations for the purpose of beginning.preliminary planning for a new 9-12 high school(1000 student capa©ty)in the Orange County School System(these are purely the recommendations of the committee and have not received a review by either the Superintendent or the Orange County Board of Education*). The Committee reviewed data supplied for the square footage considerations used in planning East Chapel Hill High and data supplied by the North Carolina State Board of Education(Facilities Guidelines,January, 1997)and suggested the following: 1.) That the new Orange County High School follow the square footage assignments used in planning East Chapel Hill High as they offer a more reasonable and accommodating footprint for High School students and teachers(e.g.,State Board Guidelines recommend 750 square feet per standard classrooms--English, Math, Social Studies, and Foreign Language and East Chapel Hill High calls for 850 square feet for these same areas. The 850 makes much more sense when one calls into consideration present and future classroom demands and technology enhancements). 2.) The Vocational Courses to be offered at the New Orange County High School is currently under examination and what flexibility for cross enrollments(if any)is also under study. 3.) This planned facility would not include in its preliminary stages an auxiliary gymnasium or an athletic stadium(The school would have an athletic component with appropriate practice and game fields, but,would not have a stadium complex similar to the one at Orange High School in this initial construction phase). 4.) A minimum of 50 acres of land would be necessary to handle a 1,000 student fa©lity(State Guidelines call for 30 acres and 1 additional acre for each 100 ADM). The minimum here is a reasonable number when looking at rapidly disappearing land parcels here in the central piece of Orange County. 5.) The total square footage of the building(s)would be approximately 177,000 square feet(129,000 square feet for direct work area and 48,000 square feet for support areas equaling out to about 176 square feet per student). The High School Standards Committee will continue to meet to deal with issues of Vocational courses and suggested support areas throughout the building complex. (*The Oranee County Board of Education discussed these recommendations on 8118/97)