This manual provides recommendations for school boards and communities concerning the leasing, selling, and marketing of school buildings. The reuse potential of each type of school building is investigated, and suggestions are made for successful conversions. Design considerations and the many aspects of acquiring and developing a school reuse…

By the time today's surplus schools are needed for students, the buildings will be 40 or 50 years old. The surplus school should be disposed of now and new facilities built when the need arises. (MLF)

A renovated department store in Virginia Beach (Virginia) now houses a wide variety of career development programs including an alternative school, vocational courses that mainstream handicapped students, and a job placement service. (Author/MLF)

A library reading room was changed into television and multimedia production facilities at Wharton County Junior College in Texas. (Author/MLF)

Some solutions to surplus space usage in school buildings. (MLF)

Presents drawings of three buildings to show ways of designing for energy conservation, accommodation of the handicapped, and the conversion of surplus schools to other uses. (IRT)

The new Port Adelaide College has been designed to make possible an alternative future use for the buildings. Noneducational commercial purposes are envisaged, and it is intended that the capital value of the college will increase over the years. (MLF)

Discusses the renovation of a gardner's cottage that provided students of Sarah Lawrence College with a place to meet and socialize. The building's history, features, and interior design features are highlighted. (GR)

Discusses considerations in flooring, wiring, and furniture when remodeling classrooms for the information age. Conversion planning stages are addressed. (GR)

Discusses how obsolete schools in one community were reused as economic-development resources for the community while also preserving the architectural heritage of the area. (GR)

Presents design features of the award-winning Carroll Junior High School (Southlake, Texas) that provides maximum flexibility for its staged expansion into a high school and a rapidly increasing school enrollment. Photos and a floor plan are provided. (GR)

Describes the design of the technology center at Laney College in Oakland, California, which was renovated from a welding shop. The building, which illustrates a "transparency" theme, houses the computer information systems department and serves as a multimedia teaching laboratory for the entire campus and local businesses. Includes…

A Davenport, Iowa, school district has remodeled a department store into a vocational and technical school currently housing 250 students on half-day programs. (Author/MLF)

Briefly describes each of 56 exemplary school modernization and renovation projects throughout the U.S. and lists a person at each site to contact for more information. (JG)