MSCS

Infrastructure Planning Discussions

Facilitator: Deidre Malone

Purpose

GOAL: Creating state-of-the-art Facilities for students and addressing district deferred maintenance resulting in the best academic opportunities for students.

• Build new facilities
• Enhance existing facilities by addressing deferred maintenance
• Establish shared academic centers and campuses
• Expand Pre-K and after school programs
• Expand critical wrap around services for students and families
• Establish plans for buildings, including reuse, mixed-use, sale, and programming that meets community-wide needs

Siloed and reactionary 

Strategic and responsive

Survey the Room

What do you know about the footprint and landscape of MSCS?

What is your opinion of the current landscape compared to how you want to see the future of Memphis?

How do you see MSCS plan correlating with the City, County, and State planning?

What do you think has been missing from past plans?

(i.e.- Community blight, real estate policy, funding for consolidated schools)

200+

• 155 school campuses, including CCTE schools, Head Start Centers, 100% special education schools, and alternative schools
• 6 additional district-operated schools on non-MSCS campuses or co-located
• 11 additional ASD-operated buildings (MSCS owned)
• 13 stadiums
• 18 administrative locations
• 6 vacant buildings
• 17 vacant lots

properties across seven regions.

MSCS owns, operates, and maintains

Facility Overview

Barriers to Excellence:

MSCS Facilities Utilization Overview

• Total deferred maintenance: $458,227,131
• 18 schools over 105% utilization
• 29 schools at less than 60% utilization
• 6 vacant schools and 17 vacant lots across MSCS
• Underutilized administration facilities
• Out-of-date policies.

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So…

What’s the Plan?

Proposed

Infrastructure

Planning Phases

Impact 50 schools and administrative buildings in five years, with renovations, reuse and mixed-use opportunities, and consolidations.

2

Pursue enhanced funding strategies with the city, county, and state and strengthen partnership with More for Memphis to aid community outreach.

Impact 110 schools in 10 years. With renovations, reuse and mixed-use opportunities, and consolidations.

Guiding Principles

3

Invest in neighborhoods.

• Analyze feeder patterns by planning regions and sub-regions.
• Analyze wrap around service availability and potential community partnerships.
• Analyze vacant building/lot reutilization and sale opportunities.

2

Invest in schools.

• Analyze utilization and enrollment data
• Analyze population and development trends.
• Analyze seat capacity.

1

Invest in students.

• Analyze six-year academic performance trends
• Analyze Pre-K programming and opportunities.

4

Invest in new high schools.

• Analyze target elementary and middle feeders of new North and East Region high schools.

Check In? - DREAM

What specific aspects of your child’s school experience make you/would make you excited to send them to school?

When you think about your K-12 self, what would you have liked to have been apart of your school experience?

Check In?

Are there any additional aspects of investment that you would like for us to consider?

What are your reflections of the investment goals?

What can you do to support/align building reuse with your respective work? What opportunities should we consider for building reuse that would aid communities?

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Internal

Funding Efficiencies

MSCS Proposed Investments

$149,522,202

Estimated 23 Academic Spaces for Reuse or Mixed -Use Opportunities

DRAFT: ESTIMATES WILL CHANGE

Strategic Opportunities

Bipartisan Infrastructure Act

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Inflation Reduction Act

Innovative Schools Grant