Monday, June 13, 2016

Mission San Jose Elementary Classrooms

The original site seems to consist of:

An administration and kindergarten building. Only one K classroom.
3 wings of 4 classrooms each, labeled from 1-12.
This would mean two classrooms per grade.
Wings 1 and 3 had bathrooms, as well as another set of bathrooms next to the admin building.

A kindergarten classroom was added. It has a bathroom, unlike the first.
This newer classroom is labeled K1 and the original room K2.
A transitional kindergarten classroom was added, labeled 1A.

A total of two additional wings of temporary/permanent portable classrooms were added west of the original 3 wings. These new rooms had far fewer windows.

The first wing, from north to south, holds rooms 13, 14, and 15 in a cluster.
Room 16 is standalone.
Another set of rooms 16A/B/C are also standalone for special services such as the PE instructor, speech therapist and other short term uses.

The final 3 rooms in the first wing of added rooms,, 17, 18, 19 are close together but don't touch.

The final, west-most wing, holds rooms 20 and 21 with a shared wall, rooms 22 and 23 with a shared wall, and room 24, a triple wide, as a standalone. It currently is a science room.

This gives a total of 24 numbered rooms plus K1, K2, and 1A. However, 24 is not a classroom and 1 is used for K. This leaves 22 rooms for grades 1-6. The nominal assignment is 3 rooms per grade so only 18 are needed.

In 2015-16, there were 4 5th grade rooms and 4 6th grade rooms but only 2 2nd grade rooms.
That means 18+1+1-1 = 19 rooms were in use, leaving 3 available for other purposes. They were rooms 4, 6 and 12, one in each of the original wings.

There was a bubble in the kindergarten class of 2013-14 where entry into kindergarten was severely restricted and many qualified families were forced to go to other schools. The kindergarten class of 2014-15 was able to accept all applicants.

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