PROBLEM 49

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS

Problem: The school authorities in Dyerton, N. K., have standardized the accommodations for the new elementary school buildings which are to be built within the next threeyear period.

Assignment

1. Criticize the dimensions of the classroom.

2. Advance the arguments in favor of cloakrooms as contrasted with lockers in the corridor; lockers inset in the rear walls of classrooms; wardrobes at rear of classroom; wardrobes at corridor wall side of classrooms.

3. Plan the kindergarten suite for this building.

4. Is the combination auditorium and playroom satisfactory? What arrangements are preferable for caring for auditorium chairs?

5. Is the auditorium sufficiently large? What are the determining factors for its size?

6. Are ten-foot corridors sufficiently wide? When can twelve-foot corridors be justified? Are wider corridors ever justifiable? When?

7. Plan the location and layouts of the toilet rooms. Is the space adequate?

8. Discuss the difficulties involved in standardizing the percentages of total floor area to be devoted to each type of

room.

9. Diagram the principal's office within the limitations suggested.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DONOVAN, J. J. ET AL. School Architecture-Principles and Practices. Mac

millan, 1921.

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. Report of Committee on School House
Planning. National Education Association, Washington, D. C., 1925.
Oakland, Calif. Book of Standards for the Erection of School Buildings, Part I.
Board of Education, Oakland, Calif., September, 1925.

STRAYER, G. D. AND ENGELHARDT, N. L. Standards for Elementary School
Buildings. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University,
1923.

PROBLEM 50

REORGANIZING THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PLANT

Problem: The School Board of Alexandria, N. K., has determined to reorganize its elementary school plant. During the past decade, only small sums have been available for the maintenance and replacement program. The citizens have recently voted a $4,000,000 appropriation for new buildings. The superintendent has been requested to present a program for the reorganization with the purpose of spending the appropriation most wisely.

The elementary schools have been scored on the StrayerEngelhardt Score Card.1 The scores allotted are those shown in Diagram 1. The approximate locations of the elementary schools are also shown.

Assignment

1. How would you use the data of the diagram in the program of reorganization?

2. What other data are needed to permit of development of the reorganization program?

3. What municipal department should be able to provide needed data?

4. Outline the report which you, as superintendent of schools, should expect to make to the Board of Education.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PENNSYLVANIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Report of the Survey of the Public Schools of Philadelphia, Pa., Book I. Public Education and Child Labor Association of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1922. STRAYER, G. D., ENGELHARDT, N. L. ET AL. Report of the Survey of the Public School System of Baltimore, Md., Vol. 1. Division of Field Studies, Institute of Educational Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921. 1 Published by Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Report of the Survey of the Schools of Port Arthur, Texas. Division of Field Studies, Institute of Educational Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1926.

Report of the Survey of Certain Aspects of the Public School System of Providence, R. I., 1923-24. Division of Field Studies, Institute of Educational Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1924.

School Building Survey and Program for St. Joseph, Mo., 1922-23. Division of Field Studies, Institute of Educational Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1923.

Report of the Survey of the Schools of Tampa, Fla. Division of Field Studies, Institute of Educational Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1926.

LOCATIONS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WITH SCORES ALLOTTED THEM ON THE STRAYER-ENGELHARDT SCORE CARD FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUILDINGS

PROBLEM 51

PLACEMENT OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UPON ITS SITE

Problem: The Board of Education of West Hills, N. K., has selected the site shown in Diagram 1 for a new elementary school. The superintendent has been asked to report to the Board of Education on the placement of the building.

The proposed elementary school must provide for 800 children on a traditional educational program basis. The city engineer has surveyed the site and submitted a blueprint showing the data of the diagram.

Assignment

1. What should the superintendent know about the building before he can suggest its placement?

2. What in general is the character of the site? What is its size?

3. What problems of orientation must be considered?

4. Reproduce the diagram, indicating the placement which you propose.

5. Write your arguments in favor of this placement.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

AYRES, M., WILLIAMS, J. F. AND WOOD, T. Healthful Schools. Houghton Mifflin, 1918.

DONOVAN, J. J. et al. School Architecture-Principles and Practices. Macmillan, 1921.

DRESSLAR, F. B. American School Buildings. U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1924, No. 17, Washington, D. C.

STRAYER, G. D. AND ENGELHARDT, N. L. Standards for Elementary School Buildings. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University,

1923.