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2023 Educational Facility Condition Assessment for MMSD - Executive Summary

Background: The 2016 Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Referendum Team, as part of a long-range facility planning effort, commissioned a comprehensive report of current education facility conditions, entitled the MMSD Educational Facility Condition Assessment Report. Included in this report were necessary upgrades along with the associated costs to provide adequate facilities throughout the District. The report guided the development of the MMSD Long Range Facilities Plan, which then was used by the Board of Education to make decisions for the 2020 Referendum.

Updated 2023 Facilities Condition Report

An update of the MMSD Educational Facility Condition Assessment Report began in 2022. The Plunkett Raysich Architects (PRA) architect firm was again used as they have a deep understanding of MMSD’s facilities and expertise in educational facilities. The 2023 updated MMSD Educational Facility Condition Assessment Report includes information on proposed strategies to achieve the goals in the Board of Education's Renewable Energy Resolution adopted in 2019. 

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Elementary Schools

Facility PRA Composite Grade Subtotal: Renewable Energy Subtotal: Architectural Components Total Cost
Nuestro Mundo Elementary School  D $21,600,000 $10,800,000 $32,400,000
Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary School C $10,300,000 $2,600,000 $12,900,000
Cesar Chavez Elementary School B $21,300,000 $900,000 $22,200,000
Crestwood Elementary School C $12,500,000 $3,200,000 $15,700,000
Conrad E. Elvehjem Elementary School C $19,700,000 $5,000,000 $24,700,000
Emerson Elementary School C $18,900,000 $4,800,000 $23,700,000
Franklin Elementary School C $15,100,000 $3,800,000 $18,900,000
Hawthorne Elementary School C $18,900,000 $4,800,000 $23,700,000
Dr. Virginia Henderson Elementary School D $20,900,000 $10,500,000 $31,400,000
Ray W. Huegel Elementary School $17,000,000 $4,300,000 $21,300,000
Kennedy Elementary School C $17,800,000 $4,500,000 $22,300,000
Lake View Elementary School C $12,200,000 $3,100,000 $15,300,000
Lapham Elementary School D $20,400,000 $5,100,000 $25,500,000
Aldo Leopold Elementary School C $22,500,000 $5,700,000 $28,200,000
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School C $16,600,000 $4,200,000 $20,800,000
Charles Lindbergh Elementary School C $10,700,000 $2,700,000 $13,400,000
Lowell Elementary School C $18,200,000 $4,600,000 $22,800,000
Mendota Elementary School D $14,500,000 $7,300,000 $21,800,000
Midvale Elementary School C $20,000,000 $15,000,000 $35,000,000
John Muir Elementary School C $19,000,000 $2,900,000 $21,900,000
Paul J. Olson Elementary School B $12,300,000 $700,000 $13,000,000
Randall Elementary School C $17,200,000 $4,300,000 $21,500,000
Carl Sandburg Elementary School C $17,300,000 $8,700,000 $26,000,000
Shorewood Hills Elementary School C $16,800,000 $8,400,000 $25,200,000
Glenn Stephens Elementary School D $19,700,000 $9,900,000 $29,600,000
Henry David Thoreau Elementary School C $16,500,000 $4,200,000 $20,700,000

Middle Schools

Facility PRA Composite Grade Subtotal: Renewable Energy Subtotal: Architectural Components Total Cost
Cherokee Heights Middle School C $23,200,000 $5,800,000 $29,000,000
Ezekiel Gillespie Middle School (Jefferson) B $20,600,000 $2,060,000 $22,660,000
Ray F. Sennett Middle School C $25,100,000 $6,275,000 $31,375,000
Spring Harbor Middle School C $10,100,000 $2,525,000 $12,625,000
James C. Wright Middle School C $15,900,000 $1,590,000 $17,490,000

Combined Elementary/Middle Schools

Facility PRA Composite Grade Subtotal: Renewable Energy Subtotal: Architectural Components Total Cost
Samuel Gompers ES/Blackhawk MS C $17,800,000 $4,450,000 $22,250,000
Marquette ES/Georgia O’Keeffe MS C $33,200,000 $16,600,000 $49,800,000
Orchard Ridge ES/Akira Toki MS D $28,500,000 $14,250,000 $42,750,000
Herbert Schenk ES/Annie Greencrow Whitehorse MS C $28,600,000 $7,150,000 $35,750,000
Van Hise ES/Hamilton MS C $32,800,000 $8,200,000 $41,000,000

Combined Middle/High School

Facility PRA Composite Grade Subtotal: Renewable Energy Subtotal: Architectural Components Total Cost
Sherman Middle / Shabazz High School D $27,300,000 $13,650,000 $40,950,000

Other

Facility PRA Composite Grade Subtotal: Renewable Energy Subtotal: Architectural Components Total Cost
Doyle Administration D $22,100,000 $11,050,000 $33,150,000

MMSD Facility Conditions Table

First page of the PDF file: DraftDashboard
Notes:
* Renewable Energy Resolution Goal costs are interconnected costs and therefore improvements made in one Renewable Energy sub-category without improvements in another Renewable Energy sub-category may result in increased overall cost and missed opportunities. The assumption of the cost figures represent a value of implementation in current market conditions without projections of future costs.
** Architectural Components to Complete Facility-Specific Renovation costs are connected to Renewable Energy Resolution Goal (MEPFS) costs and therefore improvements made in one or more Architectural Component sub-categories will influence cost and needs within one or more of the Renewable Energy Resolution Goal (MEPFS) sub-categories. The assumption of the cost figures represent a value of implementation in current market conditions without projections of future costs.

FAQs


 

Over the next two decades MMSD student enrollment will increase as the city of Madison continues to grow and prosper. Along with our students, families, staff and community, we are developing a set of planning tools called Building Excellence, to address this growth and ensure our facilities serve teaching and learning throughout the district.

A different kind of facilities planning process

Building Excellence is a living set of resources that will be used to initiate a new approach to long-range facility planning. Unlike a fixed plan that lays out a district-wide project list and timeline, our approach taps into an ever-growing database of information about each of the five project areas below (Attendance Areas, Community Growth Projections, Building Assessments, Instructional Design Needs, and Community Engagement). Building Excellence provides resources to identify and prioritize needs through a cyclical process that will allow for greater transparency and accountability, and this new approach will ensure that our facilities equitably serve teaching and learning needs district-wide.

Below you will find some of the resources that make up Building Excellence, which will be continuously updated to ensure decision-makers have the most accurate information to make facilities planning decisions. To learn more about our Capital Planning strategies that will be utilized for maintenance and major construction projects, please see slide 9 in the January Board of Education presentation.
 

Ongoing and Previous Work

2020 Referenda – Future Ready 

On November 3, 2020 Madison voters approved an operating referendum ($33M*) and facilities referendum ($317M*). Referenda 2020 will lift Madison up as a thriving, equitable, and inclusive community for generations to come. Visit the Future Ready MMSD page to learn more.

 

Information about the Holtzman Property purchase

Throughout the 2018-19 school year, the Board of Education expressed the need to provide a more adequate learning space for special education programs that are showing positive potential for students. Based on detailed discussions regarding the programming options we had available, the number of available seats in the program, and reviews of program waitlists, the Board set into reserves approximately $5 million from the closing of three tax increment districts (TID #27, #32, and #43) to purchase a permanent location for the special education programs, credit recovery and alternatives to expulsion that currently are placed in a $243,000 leased space at Olin Avenue. Learn more here.

2015 Referendum Projects

In April 2015, Madison voters authorized funding for a forty-one million dollar ($41,000,000) school facility improvement plan. The projects occurred in sixteen MMSD schools during a thirty-six month period, ending June 30, 2018. A summary of the project and its outcome can be found here.