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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If class size caps increase the way the SB is warning they might, that will change the capacity calculations for schools and might affect the calculus on which programs should go where.[/quote]

Doubt it. A larger part of a schools' capacity is common use space (lunch room, gym, playground), so that you don't have kids lunch at 945AM.[/quote]

Many schools have cafeteria capacities substantially larger than their classroom capacities.[/quote]

Which ones? Not ASFS or Key.

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Page 54: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Facilities-Optimization-Study.pdf [/quote]

wrong - that's the whole problem with this study is is woefully inadequate accounting for common spaces such as cafeterias 
all page 54 does is explain to you how APS does not adhere to best practices for 2.5 seatings as recommended by VDOE[/quote]

You're misrepresenting that a bit. The recommendation from VDOE (which is provided in the context of how big a cafeteria should be in planning the construction of a new school) is that three servings makes best use of a cafeteria, but that a 2.5 factor should be used for a continuous service program. A continuous service program is one where people are continually coming in and out and may stay for indeterminate periods of time, which happens more in high school and makes it harder to predict how many students may be in the cafeteria at a given time (e.g., a student has a free period that isn't designated as "lunch" but that they still might use to hang out in the cafeteria with their friends, or they have two free periods back to back so they go to the cafeteria to eat halfway through the first and then stay until the end of the second). Elementary schools generally don't function that way, students come in and out in defined serving periods without overlap, so 3 is an appropriate factor to use.[/quote]

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