{ "docId": "019f6b8e-f3d6-73bd-b4c2-147b64423090", "docSlug": "jarvis-april-2015-summary-of-bps-operational-review-2", "documentTitle": "April 2015 Summary of BPS Operational Review 2", "authorId": "april-2015-summary-of-bps-operational-review-2", "authorName": null, "documentKindSlug": "deck", "documentKindLabel": "Deck", "sourceTypeSlug": "investor_relations", "sourceTypeLabel": "Investor relations", "presentationDate": "2015-04-01 00:00:00", "orientation": null, "aspectRatio": null, "pageNumber": 4, "pageCount": 13, "prevPage": 3, "nextPage": 5, "slideType": "market_sizing", "function": "size_opportunity", "density": "overcrowded", "nDataPoints": 8, "notes": "The slide outlines a financial case for school consolidation based on facility utilization and operating cost structures.", "elementsJson": null, "metadataConfidence": 0.95, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019f6b8e-f3d6-73bd-b4c2-147b64423090/4", "deckHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-f3d6-73bd-b4c2-147b64423090", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-f3d6-73bd-b4c2-147b64423090.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-f3d6-73bd-b4c2-147b64423090#slide-4", "components": [ { "bbox": { "h": 0.06, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.44 }, "kind": "callout", "text": "School consolidations could net ~$1.7 – 2.2m per consolidated school in annual, run-rate cost reductions that could be reinvested.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "primary", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "24d1b1b5-8b66-41a5-9bd2-a399337ec02a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.77 }, "kind": "other", "text": "6 BPS Facilities Data, 2011\n7 This represents a school build-up based on financial averages across BPS schools. In reality, every school is different given its particular size, staffing, and facilities. As such, the operating costs of any specific school will be higher or lower than this average depending on the school.\n8 A review of current facilities is now in process to identify the current state of facilities across the system as a critical input into developing the future footprint of BPS.\n9 Closing Public Schools in Philadelphia - Lessons from Six Urban Districts, the Philadelphia Research Initiative, PEW Charitable Trusts, October 19, 2011", "attrs": null, "subkind": "source-note", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "ebd12994-63de-438a-8833-8b229b9e805c", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.25, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.51 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The average cost of operating a school within BPS is $4.6m. This includes classroom staff costs, administrators and support staff, custodial support, building maintenance and utilities. Of the $4.6m in costs, ~$3.8m represents teacher costs, with the remaining $800,000 in the other categories. Consolidating a typical school in the District would, on average, save $1.7-2.2m per year, even assuming that significant migration of instructional staff into remaining schools would be required. These cost reductions would come from both operating and maintaining buildings from facilities and administrative costs as well as staff costs. Other systems that have undergone consolidation have seen typical per-building cost reductions of $330-726K per school. At the same time, these systems did not incorporate significant changes in staffing into these efforts, with only 2 of 6 systems seeing an", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "2799499f-e0ae-4d45-8da2-fa159e62f2fc", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.15 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "BPS, through decades of student enrollment declines, without commensurate school footprint adjustments, is stretching its resources (and students) thinly across too many buildings. Initial estimates indicate that BPS is operating with over half of schools at under 68% utilization of physical capacity, yielding a student to teacher ratio of 11.6:1, below peer systems. This spreading of resources prevents BPS from concentrating resources for students, while supporting base building operating costs of nearly $2m a school.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "de6c5f6c-94f3-48ce-a97a-577404b92ff5", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.12, "w": 0.76, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.31 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The stretching of resources limits the resources that can be brought to bear for any one student, as so much is locked into physical buildings and support staff. At current enrollment and average building sizes, BPS could theoretically consolidate schools currently in its inventory. Practical considerations on class sizes, coverage across all parts of the city, current school performance and current building inventories, among many others, would all need to shape what the eventual number and specific schools could be in a right-sized BPS.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "ea4d5d3a-319f-4a64-9cb8-ac9abee52a48", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.03, "w": 0.45, "x": 0.12, "y": 0.11 }, "kind": "title", "text": "1) OPPORTUNITY TO CONSOLIDATE SCHOOLS", "attrs": null, "subkind": "headline", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "73f590ad-166e-4d9b-b0c3-9beeaa9c4254", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [ { "to": 6, "from": 4, "beatId": "22f7597c-ba35-49a6-80e7-a334bf4294d5", "arcName": "The Consultant's Gambit", "arcSlug": "consultants-gambit", "beatName": "Problem & Complication", "beatSlug": "consultants-gambit-problem-complication", "evidence": "Opportunities to consolidate schools and revisit special education reforms", "position": 1, "confidence": 0.8, "parentBeatName": "Complication", "parentBeatSlug": "complication" } ], "loops": [ { "to": 10, "from": 4, "name": "Logic Chain", "slug": "01-logic-chain", "bestFor": "Skeptical audiences, controversial recommendations, rigorous analysis", "matchId": "841314bc-bdf1-472e-ad2c-29aa18746a8c", "evidence": "Linking market sizing to operational opportunities", "position": 0, "objective": "Identify opportunities for improvement", "structure": "Premise 1 (Accepted truth) -> Premise 2 (Observed fact) -> Therefore... 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