This guide to basic principles of school design presents diagrammatic explanation of various developed standards and planning suggestions. The first section schematically develops patterns of school activity for primary, elementary, and high schools. The second discusses organization of activities--(1) contour adjustment, (2) landscaping, (3) outdoor landscape laboratories, (4) building complex expansion, and (5) site improvement. The last section covers building design data in terms of architectural criteria such as articulation, and develops specifications for--(1) primary, elementary, and high school classrooms, (2) administration, (3) libraries, (4) science rooms, (5) home economics, (6) agricultural shop, (7) lunch room, and (8) physical education facilities. (MH)