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Included in the upcoming CIP direction for Fall 2023 is a recommendation to renovate one elementary school as soon as feasibly possible and to repurpose Nottingham Elementary School as swing space to temporarily accommodate students while their home school is being renovated. The need for swing space will affect various schools across the school division.
Swing Space is a facility that can be used by a school while its building is undergoing extensive renovations. The space must consider the needs of elementary-aged students and ensure they have access to resources necessary for teaching and learning.
An elementary boundary process in 2025-26 will redistribute students to nearby schools effective for the 2026-27 school year. Swing space is defined as a facility that can be used by a school while its building is undergoing extensive renovations. The space considers the needs of elementary-aged students and ensures they have access to all the resources necessary for teaching and learning.
The School Board will vote on the FY 2025-34 CIP in June 2024.
Sixty-one sites were suggested and evaluated against educational specifications and additional requirements determined by APS. Cost and complexity were used to further evaluate APS’s options. The full report, which recommends further study of swing space for an elementary school in need of renovations, may be found in Appendix J.
Nottingham was selected based on the following information:
- Nottingham’s 2022-23 enrollment is low, and its projected enrollment remains flat through 2027-28.
- By 2026, a projected 419 Nottingham students (PreK-5) would be reassigned to schools that are adjacent to Nottingham’s boundary in an elementary boundary process.
- Based on the 2018 study of walk zones, 140 Nottingham K-5 students reside in planning units that are within the walk zones for Discovery (13) and Tuckahoe (127).
- Nottingham has surrounding schools with open capacity to welcome reassigned students, limiting the number of students who must be reassigned from receiving schools to balance enrollment.
- Nottingham has five relocatable classrooms on their campus, with space to add more if needed for hosting a larger school population.
- Community members have raised a concern about needing additional school capacity during county processes on the Missing Middle and Plan Langston Boulevard. If enrollment in this area increases again, Nottingham could be returned to a neighborhood elementary school.
The rationale for selecting Nottingham Elementary as a swing space site is included in the Pre-CIP and Swing Space Reports.
