Strategic Plan: Modernized and Safe Facilities
Key Priority: Modernized and Safe Facilities
Priority Statement
Worcester Public Schools is committed to ensuring that each of our school facilities has the infrastructure to support equitable access to a 21st-century teaching and learning environment.
Aim 1
Increase spending on facilities to better repair and maintain the schools, grounds, and district buildings.
Goal 1
By the end of the 2027-28 school year, increase spending on operations and maintenance to the foundation budget level as supported by state and local funding.
Key Performance Indicator 1.1: Maintenance and operations cost ratio to foundation budget allocation.
Key Performance Indicator 1.2: Level of funding for facilities improvements from local, state, and federal sources.
Worcester Public Schools May 22, 2023. Photo/Reba Saldanha
Aim 2
Expand identification and prioritization of building renovation and replacement projects to support future-ready learning spaces for students.
Goal 2
By the end of the 2027-28 school year, update the district facilities master plan.
Key Performance Indicator 2.1: Deferred Maintenance cost for the district.
Goal 3
By the end of the 2027-28 school year, develop a framework of a common vision of what future-ready schools look like.
Key Performance Indicator 3.1: Cost per classroom to update to future-ready.
Goal 4
By the end of the 2023-24 school year, develop a 5-year capital plan using cost analysis of current building operations to prioritize projects.
Key Performance Indicator 4.1: Maintenance and operations cost per student.
The rear exterior of the future Doherty Memorial High School Building as seen on August 10, 2023.
Aim 3
Increase responsiveness to repair and maintenance of schools, grounds, and district buildings.
Goal 5
By the end of the 2027-28 school year, implement and train key stakeholders in the use of a computerized maintenance management system that will enable an action plan for any urgent building repair and maintenance requests within 72 hours.
Key Performance Indicator 5.1: Percent of urgent building repairs completed an action plan within 72 hours.
Key Performance Indicator 5.2: Work order response time.
Key Performance Indicator 5.3: Work order completion time.
Goal 6
By the end of the 2027-28 school year, implement the recommendations of the district’s school safety audit using a prioritization and funding schedule.
Key Performance Indicator 6.1: Project completion based on priority ranking.
Aim 4
Expand future-ready opportunities for students through alignment and partnership with community-based learning resources and spaces.
Goal 7
By the end of the 2027-28 school year, develop a community-wide inventory of higher education, industry, and cultural partners and the associated spaces within their organizations for potential learning spaces.
Key Performance Indicator 9.1: Number of new community spaces.