For your consideration.

[mbperrin]

2. All of it very standard stuff - well known to educators:

Small school - 220 kids K-8. Good.
40 staff members - 5.5 students per staff member. Excellent.

Those two alone would be wonderful to have.

For example, the campus I teach: 3600 students 10-12. Huge. Alienating to children. Impersonal.
202 Staff members - 18 students per staff member, counting janitors and cafeteria workers.

AND soon to add 1500 9th graders, along with 50 staff, bringing our new ration to 21 to 1. Our administration calls it economies of scale. Sounds better than warehousing, doesn't it?

Good looking school and great success evident. Now if we could just convince more districts to put in the resources.