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Existing Facilities the Educational Standards of Another Era • Most of the district’s schools were designed in accordance with Existing Facilities the educational standards of another era. As such, many of the classrooms do not meet current size standards. Also, most The Long Range Facilities Plan is based on an Existing Facilities schools do not adequately provide the specialized spaces Evaluation of each of the district’s school buildings, as required by the advocated in the Newark Facilities Model. New Jersey Department of Education. The evaluation supports a determination of building condition, capacity, and educational adequacy, • The Newark Public Schools provides “neighborhood” schools to as submitted as part of the 1999 FMP and confirmed by the 2002 update. general education students in grades PreK-8 without busing The current state of the district’s infrastructure is summarized below, except in special circumstances. followed by a statistical analysis. • Many schools currently offer little or no on-site parking or play CRITICAL ISSUES: Physical Plant areas. The playgrounds that do exist are severely compromised • The average age of a Newark public school building is for staff parking needs. approximately 83 years. The average age of an Abbott district school is 58 years. The average age of a Newark public school addition is 73 years. The average age of an Abbott district school addition is 35 years. • Except for the Belmont-Runyon Elementary School (completed in 2004 with non-Abbott funding) and a few schools that were constructed or renovated in the 1990s, most Newark public schools requires significant upgrades to repair or replace items that are no longer functional, replace components that have exceeded their life cycle expectancy, and/or to meet current code requirements. The projected cost to correct critical health and safety deficiencies and maintain the existing buildings in operation for the next 5 years before they are replaced or fully renovated is estimated at approximately $200,000,000. CRITICAL ISSUES: Capacity/Program Spaces • The majority of Newark’s schools were located to serve student population needs of 50 to 100 years ago. Therefore, many schools today are either overcrowded or underutilized, depending upon demographic changes that have occurred during the last century. Most schools that have excess capacity are not located in areas that can help alleviate overcrowding in nearby schools. • Two of the five School Leadership Teams do not have adequate capacity to accommodate the projected enrollments. Three SLTs have surplus capacity due to the demolition of public housing units and population decline, which makes some consolidations possible. NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2005 LONG RANGE FACILITIES PLAN DISTRIC OVERVIEW PAGE B:3 TABLE B.2 District Statistical Summary CAPACITY & ENROLLMENT INFRASTRUCTURE Capacity per 2004-05 2009 School Number of Bldgs. Total Gross Sq. Ft. GSF/Student Average School Age NJDOE Enroll. Proj. Enroll. Sites (based on capacity) (orig. sect) (acres) SLT I Central 4,963 3,499 3,422 24.56 11 938,715 189.14 East 3.144 4,347 5,228 7.18 9 463,505 147.42 SLT I TOTALS 8,107 7,846 8,650 31.74 20 1,402,220 172.96 108 yrs. SLT II TOTALS 11,230 11,358 12,277 35.90 12 2,231,935 198.75 79 yrs. SLT III North 5,642 4,113 4,707 16.19 9 872,250 154.60 South 3,830 3,327 3,355 16.79 7 702,380 183.39 SLT III TOTALS 9,472 7,440 8,062 32.98 16 1,574,630 166.24 68 yrs. SLT IV East 5,220 5,644 5,977 11.95 11 926,211 177.43 West 2,664 3,475 3,713 10.36 5 357,820 134.32 SLT IV TOTALS 7,884 9,119 9,690 22.31 16 1,284,031 162.86 84 yrs. SLT V East 5,399 3,488 3,811 14.46 8 871,090 161.34 West 3,063 2,775 3,111 10.94 7 432,195 141.10 SLT V TOTALS 8,462 6,263 6,263 25.40 14 1,303,285 154.02 77 yrs. SCHOOL TOTALS 44,611 41,954 44,942 148.33 78 7,779,431 174.38 83 yrs. NOTES: 2004-05 Enrollments do not include Charter School student or out-of-district placements. Capacity calculations are based on prescribed NJDOE methodologies, including class size. 2005 LONG RANGE FACILITIES PLAN NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS EXISTING FACILITIES PAGE B:4 SLT I Facilities School Leadership Team I serves roughly two Wards of the city—the East and Central. The East Ward contains nine school buildings, including four annexes. Ten schools are located in the SLT I portion of the Central Ward. The largest part of the East Ward, referred to as the Ironbound, is one of the most densely populated and oldest neighborhoods in Newark. Defined by clear boundaries, the Ironbound is served by rail, air and water connections, which make the area extremely accessible. Close to five hundred above-market-rates housing units have been built and sold in the last five years, and more are being built daily. The Ironbound neighborhood has a vibrant identity and a strong sense of community values. Through the years, the Ironbound has attracted waves of immigrants and new businesses. Residents and businesses have fought many battles to defend the livability of the Ironbound and are currently seeking new ways to improve the quality of life in the community. Currently, however, the livability of the Ironbound is at risk. Infrastructure and services such as roads, parking, schools, recreation areas, fire stations and other facilities are heavily overloaded. In the case of schools, classes sometimes have as many as forty children and Figure B.1 playgrounds have been turned into parking lots. Due in part to the condition of the outdated facilities, a large percentage of the Ironbound student population attends private institutions, adding to the financial Of the twenty-six schools in Newark that are over one hundred years old, burden of the working-class parents of these children. fourteen are located in SLT I. This includes Lafayette Street School, which, with an original wing built in 1848, is the oldest operating school The Central Ward schools serve an area that was the center of the 1967 building in the State of New Jersey. Following closely behind Lafayette summer riots. During this era, there were 1,409 tenement apartment Street School are two Central Ward schools, Morton Street and Newton houses in the area, of which 1,247 were judged substandard. While the Street, whose original dates of construction are 1851 and 1866, enrollment in the Central Ward has diminished over the years due to respectively. Due to the age of the buildings and the programs that are families leaving or the closing of public and private housing, there is a needed to meet the students’ needs, there is a real need for new schools resurgence of new public and private housing all over this ward. Most of and other major renovations in SLT I. the students attending school in the Central Ward receive free lunch, which is an indication of the economic status of the area. Many students Critical facilities issues are summarized below. A detailed statistical presently live in public housing and come to school in need of assistance summary with infrastructure, existing capacity, projected enrollment, and with health and social needs. Because of the identified needs, most unhoused student data for each SLT I school is provided in Table C.2. schools in the Central Ward provide after-school programs in an attempt to provide safe havens for the children. One school has a new health clinic that opened several years ago. NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2005 LONG RANGE FACILITIES PLAN DISTRIC OVERVIEW PAGE B:5 TABLE B.3 SLT I Statistical Summary CAPACITY AND ENROLLMENT INFRASTRUCTURE Grades Existing 2004-05 Site Size Gross Dates of Construction (9/04) Capacity Enrollment (acres) Sq. Ft. Orig. Add. Add. Add. SLT I CENTRAL Burnet Street PK-8 370 296 1.34 84,460 1868 1906 1914 Cleveland PK-6 452 330 1.31 78,235 1932 Dr. M L King, Jr. K-8 650 597 1.92 113,930 1872 1900 1907 1963 18th Avenue PK-6 465 308 2.56 96,300 1871 1900 1915 1923 Harold Wilson/SLT Office Vacant [368] 0 7.60 75,300 1984 Morton Street 1-8 557 338 1.43 102,945 1885 1909 Newton Street K-8 626 477 1.34 98,930 1866 1873 1900 1904 Quitman Street PK-4 900 405 6.50 156,450 1963 Berliner (at Quitman) SE 84 47 38,950 1974 Sussex Avenue 2-8 551 471 1.42 64,429 1892 1954 1996 Sussex Avenue Annex K-1 Incl. Above Incl. Above 0.44 27,525 1970 Warren Street K-8 308 230 0.56 65,690 1891 1908 Subtotal 4,963 3,499 24.56 938,715 SLT I EAST Ann Street K-8 805 1,110 2.62 92,120 1885 1897 1916 1923 Ann Street ECC PK/K Incl. Above Incl. Above Leased 4,000 Hawkins Street K-8 494 615 1.07 64,660 1887 1904 1922 Lafayette Street 1-8 643 765 1.10 75,170 1848 1863 1881 1904 Lafayette Street Annex PK-1 Incl. Above Incl. Above Leased 8,485 1874 Oliver Street PK-8 612 812 0.86 93,115 1869 1903 1915 1922 South Street K-5 296 236 0.69 35,090 1883 1900 Wilson Avenue PK-8 294 809 0.70 82,865 1881 1900 1906 1925 Wilson Avenue ECC PK Incl.
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