School Spending Raises Property Values
• The domestic home-buying population clearly values the right school. Realtor.com’s recent survey of nearly 1,000 prospective home buyers showed that 91 percent said school boundaries were important in their search.
• Buyers are also willing to put their money where their mouths are. One out of five home buyers said they would pay 6 to 10 percent above their budget for the right school. One out of 10 would double that to 20 percent. Considering that number could be $100,000 in a lot of markets, it makes one wonder: How much investment in a school district is appropriate?
SOURCE: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
The Economic Impact of Communities In Schools
• An economic impact quantifying the costs and benefits of Communities In Schools model.
• In May 2012, Communities In Schools released the results of an economic impact study conducted by EMSI, one of the nation’s leading economic modeling firms. The purpose of the study was to quantify the return on investment of Communities In Schools’ 113 high school-serving affiliates in its network to taxpayers, businesses, and students.
Among the significant findings are:
- The average annual rate of return to society is 18.4%.
- The benefit/cost ratio is 11.6, which means that every dollar invested in Communities In Schools creates $11.60 of economic benefit for the community.
- High school graduates will be net contributors to their communities for an average of 44 years of their working life, using their increased income to purchase homes and cars, and paying taxes that will support police officers, firefighters and teachers.
SOURCE: Communities In Schools
Experts: School Buildings Affect Learning
• When facilities are clean, comfortable and well-equipped, student performance improves
• Studies over the past two decades by Thompson and other researchers in Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere have consistently found that students score higher on standardized tests and feel more motivated when their classrooms are clean, comfortable and well-equipped. One 1993 D.C. study found that when school buildings were improved significantly, average student-achievement test scores at those schools climbed by 10.9 percent.
• At the most basic level, more than a dozen studies reported in various academic journals conclude that adequate heating or cooling, good lighting, good acoustics that eliminate excessive noise, adequate space per student and good indoor air quality all help student learning. Other studies have linked the quality of buildings to rates of student absenteeism.
• Across most of the country, of course, the wealthier the neighborhoods and the families who live there, the nicer the school facilities tend to be. But while family income, the home environment and other social factors make a difference in how well students learn, Thompson said that even after adjusting for those type of socioeconomic variables, and for the size and location of schools, "the better the facility, the better the outcome."
Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/05/22/20110522arizona-schools-building-repairs-effects.html#ixzz2mQHJJmPw
Study: School Design Can Significantly Affect a Child's Grades
SCIENCE 03 JANUARY 13 by IAN STEADMAN
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/03/school-design-influences-learning
• The domestic home-buying population clearly values the right school. Realtor.com’s recent survey of nearly 1,000 prospective home buyers showed that 91 percent said school boundaries were important in their search.
• Buyers are also willing to put their money where their mouths are. One out of five home buyers said they would pay 6 to 10 percent above their budget for the right school. One out of 10 would double that to 20 percent. Considering that number could be $100,000 in a lot of markets, it makes one wonder: How much investment in a school district is appropriate?
SOURCE: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
The Economic Impact of Communities In Schools
• An economic impact quantifying the costs and benefits of Communities In Schools model.
• In May 2012, Communities In Schools released the results of an economic impact study conducted by EMSI, one of the nation’s leading economic modeling firms. The purpose of the study was to quantify the return on investment of Communities In Schools’ 113 high school-serving affiliates in its network to taxpayers, businesses, and students.
Among the significant findings are:
- The average annual rate of return to society is 18.4%.
- The benefit/cost ratio is 11.6, which means that every dollar invested in Communities In Schools creates $11.60 of economic benefit for the community.
- High school graduates will be net contributors to their communities for an average of 44 years of their working life, using their increased income to purchase homes and cars, and paying taxes that will support police officers, firefighters and teachers.
SOURCE: Communities In Schools
Experts: School Buildings Affect Learning
• When facilities are clean, comfortable and well-equipped, student performance improves
• Studies over the past two decades by Thompson and other researchers in Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere have consistently found that students score higher on standardized tests and feel more motivated when their classrooms are clean, comfortable and well-equipped. One 1993 D.C. study found that when school buildings were improved significantly, average student-achievement test scores at those schools climbed by 10.9 percent.
• At the most basic level, more than a dozen studies reported in various academic journals conclude that adequate heating or cooling, good lighting, good acoustics that eliminate excessive noise, adequate space per student and good indoor air quality all help student learning. Other studies have linked the quality of buildings to rates of student absenteeism.
• Across most of the country, of course, the wealthier the neighborhoods and the families who live there, the nicer the school facilities tend to be. But while family income, the home environment and other social factors make a difference in how well students learn, Thompson said that even after adjusting for those type of socioeconomic variables, and for the size and location of schools, "the better the facility, the better the outcome."
Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/05/22/20110522arizona-schools-building-repairs-effects.html#ixzz2mQHJJmPw
Study: School Design Can Significantly Affect a Child's Grades
SCIENCE 03 JANUARY 13 by IAN STEADMAN
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/03/school-design-influences-learning