{"id":4231,"date":"2015-07-15T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:50:37","slug":"per-student-construction-costs-of-rebuilding-treasure-mountain-junior-high-seem-astronomically-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/15\/per-student-construction-costs-of-rebuilding-treasure-mountain-junior-high-seem-astronomically-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Per Student Construction Costs of Rebuilding Treasure Mountain Junior High Seem Astronomically High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having dinner with a friend last night, when the subject of the cost of rebuilding Treasure Mountain Junior High (TMJH) came up. She said, &#8220;What&#8217;s the estimated cost to rebuild Treasure Mountain?&#8221; I said, &#8220;$26 million.&#8221; She said&#8230; &#8220;$26 million? For 2 grades? TWO GRADES?!?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t thought of it that way.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was trying to figure out how much per square foot it costs to build an elementary school. The best study I found was out of Texas. They noted that costs vary by region but they&#8217;ve attempted to account for that. It seems that the average cost per square foot for an elementary school in Texas (as of 2103) was $149. Ours is <del datetime=\"2015-07-15T18:22:55+00:00\">much<\/del> higher than that.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there&#8217;s a much more interesting point I believe. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastransparency.org\/Special_Features\/Reports\/School_Construction\/pdf\/Public_School_Construction_Costs.pdf\">In the Texas study<\/a>, they calculate the cost per student of building an elementary school at capacity. That number is $17,461 per student. Now let&#8217;s take our school district&#8217;s number of $26.2 million in costs to build a new TMJH and divide it by the number of students in 5th and 6th grade during 2014-2015 (773 students). I would assume we wouldn&#8217;t want to build the school with too much extra capacity in order to make sure that open enrollment doesn&#8217;t impact us too much. Given that, the cost per student served is $33,893.<\/p>\n<p>Those costs are 94% higher per student than in Texas. I know we want <em><strong>The Best Schools in America\u2122,<\/strong><\/em> but are our schools going to be 100% better than those in Texas?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FeBGuLK5Pgc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having dinner with a friend last night, when the subject of the cost of rebuilding Treasure Mountain Junior High (TMJH) came up.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}