The Needs Survey Final Report is the culmination of more than eight months of work commissioned by the Massachusetts School Building Authority to gather statewide baseline data about the general conditions of locally-owned public school facilities throughout the Commonwealth. The data collected is a result of the observations of teams of educators and engineers whose task was to utilize a standard survey to ascertain the general condition of each school in the Commonwealth. Data collectors visited every superintendent in every school district to receive an inventory of school committee-controlled school properties and then visited every one of those school facilities to gather this important baseline data. Baseline data about the general condition of Massachusetts school facilities has never existed in the breadth and scope which has been gathered herein. This baseline data will be one of many important tools that the Board of the Authority will use when considering new applications for funding when a reformed School Building Grant program begins in fiscal year 2008.
2005 Needs Survey
- 2005 Needs Survey Report (pdf)