OKCPS Long Range Facilities Master Plan

preparing a pathway to GREATNESS

Oklahoma City Public School Board hired ADG Blatt to perform a facilities long range master planning assessment and recommendation. The program, branded as the Pathway to Greatness, included a complete demographic study and facility assessment with estimated costs. The scope incorporated prioritizing projects required for future bond consideration based on the facility audits.

As part of this effort, the Board developed and approved a Facilities Master Planning Policy, which consisted of nine key data points to be used in three scenarios for re-districting. Examples of these criteria are as follows: academic performance, facility utilization rate, demographics, physical plant, legal obligations, safety, location, community services and program offerings. ADG Blatt gathered and compiled these data points per individual school and released for public consumption. This data was used to develop three independent facility scenarios for school closures, repurposing, reconfiguring and surplus. These recommendations were narrowed to one final path that the Oklahoma City School Board voted unanimously to implement in March 2019.