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Orange County Board of Education -2- February 20, 1986 (5) The 1985-86 SDPI K-5 projection was 2,277 with an actual membership of 2,317 (a positive difference of 40) . (6) The 1985-86 SDPI K-12 projection was 4,960, with an actual membership of 5,031 (a positive difference of 71) . (7) The 1985-86 membership in the sixth grade as of January, 1986, is 359, with a projected sixth grade membership in 1987-88 of 376 and in 1989-90 a sixth grade membership of 355. However, the sixth grade is projected to return to the 400+ level in the early 1990's. The net result of this and other data is that the Orange County Schools will need a new facility to house approximately 400 sixth graders in either one school or redistributed to elementary schools. Also, the system needs to plan facility improvements to house projected K-5 growth of 200 students. The system should return its current K-5 schools to their reasonable capacity to accommodate for additional growth, which should reduce their arnbined membership to 2,200 (a net reduction of approximately 100) . Therefore, I recommend that the Board of Education approve as Phase II of its major facility improvement plan the construction of an elementary school to house 700 students. At the point the new elementary school is ready for occupancy, the elementary schools should be converted to a K-6 grade structure. With the use of A. L. Stanback as a system-level education center, it would provide relief to the current facilities by housing system-level services; such as selected self-contained exceptional child classes, teacher/employee staff development center, adult education program and other programs to be developed and/or identified for syster-level emphasis. To construct a 700 student elementary school, the Board would need approximately $4,000,000. This figure is computed at a $50 per square foot cost, to include inflation and acquisition of 30 acres of land; provided the project is bid and begun no later than 1987. The adoption of this recommendation.mould be less expensive than the construction of a similarly sized middle school based on the square footage requirement alone. A middle school requires twenty (20) square feet more per student than an elementary school. Likewise, the construction of a middle school would require that either the two schools be of unequal size or Stanford Junior High would be underutilized to provide equal size schools. In summary, it is my recommendation that a new K-6 school is a sound educational and financial decision. DGL:ha