North Carolina
Mountain Xpress - August 12, 2025
At its Aug. 11 meeting, the Asheville City Board of Education approved, 6-1, a $243,950 districtwide facility needs assessment led by McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture (MPSA). “Our team’s role is to provide guidance on school design trends and construction and interact with your stakeholders to drive the effort,” the report reads. The process will include…
Voices from the field
National Center on School Infrastructure (NCSI)
An interview with Mary Filardo of 21CSF on tools that NCSI is creating to support decision-makers and advance shared knowledge about school facilities.
Resource Hub
Philadelphia Regional Center for Children's Environmental Health (PRCCEH)
This website offers access to translational science asbestos hazard summary reports for individual schools in the School District of Philadelphia using publicly available information collected and reported by school districts as part of their EPA-AHERA assessment and reporting requirements.
Research/Report
School Finance Research Foundation
This report assesses Michigan school facility quality, estimating it will cost $23 billion to bring school facilities up to health, safety, and wellness standards by 2033. It involves an analysis of over 243 million square feet of space, providing the state with its first analysis of school building quality.
Dataset
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
The School Pulse Panel (SPP) is a monthly national survey that gathers timely data on public schools. In 2023, it started including questions about school facility conditions. In the 2024 academic year, the SPP began asking questions about whether school facilities were meeting the needs of students.
Guide/Tool
National Center on School Infrastructure (NCSI)
This interactive dashboard allows users to visualize the scale, scope, and distribution of state and local public educational facilities inventory, investments, spending, and debt over time.
Research/Report
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
ASCE's 2025 Infrastructure Report Card assigns the nation’s 98,000 PK-12 schools a grade of D+. A key finding of the Report Card is the lack of comprehensive national data about the condition of school facilities.
Guide/Tool
Delaware Department of Education
This facility assessment tool helps school districts review and assess conditions in a standardized way.
Research/Report
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
This report uses data from the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) and presents findings both on crime and violence in U.S. public schools and on the practices and programs schools are using to promote school safety.
Case Study/Exemplar
Green Schoolyards America
Green Schoolyards America’s team used GIS to quantify tree canopy on all of California’s K-12 public school campuses, and published their analysis and an interactive map to provide an overview of existing conditions, a baseline for measuring change over time, and data to inform action priorities.