Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan Educational

Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan Educational Framework

December 2019

RESULTS REPORT

CABELL COUNTY SCHOOLS

PREPARED FOR: Cabell County Schools 2850 5th Ave. Huntington, WV 25702 T 304.528.5047 PREPARED BY: Cooperative Strategies 4675 Lakehurst Ct. Ste. 200 Dublin, OH 43016 T 614.798.8828

TOC SECTION PAGE INTRODUCTION / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ----------------------------------------------------- 1 I. RESULTS SUMMARY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2

Results------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Demographics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21

CABELL COUNTY SCHOOLS PAGE 1

CEFP EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK RESULTS DECEMBER 2019

INTRODUCTION

On November 21, 2019, a Community Meeting was held (one meeting at each high school) to discuss and collect feedback from the community regarding the future of education in Cabell County. Items discussed included facility adequacy, facility age, and CTE programming. After a short presentation from Cooperative Strategies, Scott Leopold, participants were asked to complete a questionnaire individually as well as in small groups. The groups discussed the same questions that were posed to individuals and had to discuss the items to come to a consensus. Cooperative Strategies would like to thank the students, staff, Board of Education, and the community of the Cabell County Schools for their commitment and dedication to the planning process.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS District Leadership: Mr. Ryan S. Saxe, Superintendent School Board Members:

Mary Neely, District 2, President Rhonda Smalley, District 4, Vice President Dr. Carole Garrison, District 3 Garland “Skip” Parsons, District 4 Gordon Ramey II, District 2

Cooperative Strategies: Mr. Scott Leopold, Cooperative Strategies; Partner Ms. Ashley Guzzo, Cooperative Strategies; Associate Director



RESULTS SUMMARY

In total, there were 33 individual, 10 group, 148 online questionnaires collected. A cross-section of the Cabell County community was represented in the results with respondents self-affiliating with every school. Some common themes from the questionnaires include:

• Update all facilities • Make facilities equitable • Small class sizes are preferred • Special need students need more resources/considerations

The full results can be found on the subsequent pages.



RESULTS

OTHER:

• (Social/Behavior issues box is also checked.) • Administration • All to be handled • Behaviors of students is keeping other students from truly learning • Classes are too large, at the elementary level especially. • Computers - kids need teachers face to face and print to look at and learn from, not more screens! • Curriculum- Special Education • Differentiation for EVERY student in the classroom, duties, parent demands, etc) • Drugs • Equipment per student • Facilities due to class size. Redistricting must be made a priority.

IND GRP WEB

Time on a bus 4 1 19

Location 15 7 55

Physical condition of the school 17 2 53

Program Focus 11 3 48

Academics 27 9 98

Administrator and Staff 11 3 64

Sports/Athletic Programs/Activities/Facilities 8 3 21

Safety 22 7 76

Class size of students 12 4 82

Not applicable/No opinion 1 0 3

No Consensus 0

Q1

When selecting a residence, which

considerations are most important for the

corresponding school to have?

Please choose your top four (4).

IND GRP WEB

Facilities 14 1 31

Curriculum 11 5 47

Staffing 13 4 65

Programming 2 0 18

Social/Behavior issues 21 9 96

Other 2 1 10

No Consensus 0

Q2

What are the top two(2) challenges facing the

academic programs for Cabell County Schools?

Please select 2 at most.



• Funding • Half of middle school kids cannot tell time, cannot read cursive writing, cannot answer simple questions. • IEP not being followed. Low expectations. Kids with IEP’s are not learning to read. • Impact of community situations - SES, lack of employment, substance abuse, trauma for students. • IReady is bad! We need aides in 1st grade. Spend the $ from IReady for an aide to work w/ dif. Students. • Lack of proper supplies, such as science equipment. • Lack of strong administration. • Need for textbooks. • Needs to go back to the basics and build on them. What you’re doing now is not working. • Not enough support for Special Education. • Not listening to students’ opinions of things that should have been taught in Elementary school. Teachers

are teaching a test and not teaching. • Quality of staffing. • Resisting political/social pressures to do parents jobs - ex. sex education. • Stop wasting money and put it toward staffing. Leadership & Teachers. • Student Ownership / Voice. • Students need the possibility of failure. • Students to teacher ratio is too high. • Teachers are too restricted in what and how they teach, and severely limited on how behavior issues can

impact. • The behavior of your staff is unbelievably ridiculous, and the punishments are not thought through at all. • Too focused on academics, not enough on social activities. • Too many demands on teachers. Teachers cannot simply teach. (Lesson plans, SATs, 504, IEP) • Too much computer-based learning in elementary years especially, and middle school is virtually all on

electronics. • Too much required computer time



OTHER:

• Accessibility • Avoid consolidation; smaller schools are better schools. • Having administration and staff that will follow IEP/504 plans instead of ignoring them. • I don't understand this section. • Lack of science equipment and funding. • Mental help workers in the schools - Get rid of Prestera workers from the county and use Cabell county. • Need elementary alternative school building. • Constant behavioral children placed on social workers. • Non-Participation by students in classes. • Pools for swimmers. • Replacing old computers and more staff to handle special ed and behavior problems • See necessity of group over possible academics

Equip. Needs- Computers don’t work. • Funding- Going to the wrong programs • Time out of class - some use it as an excuse. • Time to offer services such as groups within the school schedules or at least getting administration to. • Too many people on board. • Safety concern: Lots of Bullying; resource offices not helping with this. • Workers of Prestera are never there as much as they are supposed to be.

IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB

Condition of facilities 4 1 32 7 3 17 7 2 25 0 0 22

Equipment needs 11 4 46 10 5 29 14 6 45 6 1 21

Space / time for all programs 11 5 42 6 5 28 7 4 32 7 4 43

Facility Needs 3 4 25 7 2 25 7 2 29 1 0 29

People (Staff / Students) 6 1 32 6 2 22 3 2 21 16 8 70

Number / equity of program offerings 1 1 26 3 1 29 5 1 19 5 2 37

Cost of programs 14 1 35 8 3 19 4 2 15 5 1 26

Transportation 2 2 17 5 2 15 4 0 12 3 2 16

Spaces within facilities 5 3 32 8 4 21 8 3 28 12 3 31

Funding 17 9 58 9 7 29 8 5 23 16 8 45

Other 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 1 3 0 0 11

No Consensus 0 0 0 0

Q3What are the top three (3) challenges facing the following programs in Cabell County Schools?

Please select 3 at most per program.

Visual & Performing Arts CTE Physical Education Student Services



OTHER:

• Can we keep low numbers so that student needs can be met? • Equitable distribution of Special Education enrollment is essential. • Handicap accessibility for students’, staff, and visitors. • Keep schools inside of communities and keep small class sizes. • Planning for the future growth of the new school being built and not just for what you have today. • Redistricting at the schools. • Security Cameras do not work. • Small school and small class sizes. • Spend money in the best way for quality. • The school is actual trash. • value added to the neighborhood.

IND GRP WEB

Historical, architectural, or cultural

significance of the school 3 0 16

Physical condition of the school 21 8 103

Safety and security of the school 23 7 112

Ability to accommodate enrollment on

current site 11 3 50

Enrollment growth or decline 5 1 19

Facility is overcrowded or underutilized 18 5 41

Overall cost of the project 10 1 23

The school building does not have the right

spaces for the current program(s) being

taught 7 2 41

Other 0 3 5

No Consensus 0

Q4

When determining whether a school should be renovated,

replaced, built new, re-purposed, or closed: which 3 of the

following factors should be considered the highest priority?

Please select 3 at most.



OTHER:

• Advocacy groups for vulnerable populations. • All of the above. • Community Swimming Pool for Lessons, Aerobics, and Lifeguarding Classes. • Concerned about Custodial + Safety. • Concerns: Security & Custodial • Free sports not charging youth leagues for facilities.

Q5

IND GRP WEB

Family resource centers16 4 73

Health services6 3 54

Parks & Rec programs12 3 53

Adult education programs15 5 75

Senior Services7 2 38

Wellness center/Mental Health Services9 4 51

After school programs (YMCA for example)14 5 76

Community service groups (For example:

churches, Rotary, community centers) 13 5 60

Youth and independent sport leagues10 5 68

Day care / child care9 3 56

GED Preparation & Testing15 5 58

Public Library11 2 42

Public / City / County Services (police, fire,

hospital, etc.) 9 4 32

College/University/Career Tech Classes15 5 69

Veterans Organizations7 3 32

Other0 1 3

No Consensus 0

Would you be interested in the District permitting

public access to the facilities or developing

partnerships with the services or agencies listed

below (after hours use)? If so, please select those

you are interested in having the District pursue.



• Great need for a swimming pool. • I am fine with pretty much everything, as long as it doesn’t expose students to the leftist agenda. • I would not want persons in the building that are not vetted. • Job shadowing. • Many of these are appropriate. • No! the school needs to be for the students. • None. • Pool. • Takes away from the students and the after-school programs that should be provided to them. • Things get complicated when they do that.

OTHER:

• "0" home economic knowledge, yet they are taught how to take the SAT, have homework every night, and "real-world" learning. This would include things like updated home economics courses.

• 800-1000 per lunch. We need 3 lunches or a bigger cafe. Kids last in line may not even have time to eat. • Administration and staff! When you have an administration that protects teachers over students. • Aides to help kids who struggle or have behaviors. First grade class is too big. • Air conditioning is needed at all elementary schools. • All buildings with an entrance that directs parents to the office and not within school hallways. • Alternative school from cox landing - use this as both a temp. placement and a full-time school and the

learning process with flourish. • Anything just passes so the teacher can get a good evaluation. • Attending the school with room for growth. • Auditoriums need to be updated. A larger auditorium could be warranted at both HS’s. • Being mandated on a bi-weekly type touch base protocol. • Better and friendlier staff and newer buildings. • Better programs aligned with technology. • Build a pool. The obesity problem in Cabell county is real. A swimming pool would be very beneficial. • Building while HS students are there. • Cabell county needs a pool for swimmers to use. • Cabell midland needs “man traps” too. It is easy for intruders to enter these older buildings. • Cannot meet the kid’s needs. • Career center needs a man trap entrance; too many ESL and adults tasc students in and out. • Choose a new location based on the safety of the neighborhood. • Class sizes are much too large. • Compared to other states, the options for our students is very limited in regard to classes, food, etc. • Concerned on the size of student body and students getting the attention that is needed. • Consolidation has made some schools too large. • Cooking and home/family life, such as money management, household maintenance, child rearing. • The current building, I work in has mold, history of asbestos, and multiple leaks in the roof throughout the

building. • Depends on which of the elementariness you’re referring to. • Not enough time to get from one class to the other. Hallways too crowded. • Elementary - electrical issues cannot be fixed, need new building.

Q6

IND GRP WEB

Yes 25 10 112

No 3 0 18

Don't Know / No Opinion 4 0 17

No Consensus 0

Do you believe updated/newer facilities impact the

economic development of the region?

Q7

IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB IND GRP WEB

Elementary Schools 3 1 28 11 7 48 8 0 12 10 2 52 1 0 4 0

Middle Schools 3 1 14 2 0 32 6 0 24 17 9 60 4 0 13 0

High Schools 3 0 22 7 2 32 4 0 16 19 5 63 2 2 11 0

How well do you believe all our facilities currently align with the education needs to be delivered in the future?

Not Well Somewhat Well Don't Know/No Opinion Well Very Well No Consensus



• Elementary - wide variance in facilities. Middle - needs more space to meet capacity, support services, and outdoor facilities. High schools - newer facilities but need updates and maintenance. No traveling teachers!

• Elementary classes are too big. • Elementary- common learning spaces for steam activities. Central office auditorium needs updated. • Elementary school needs updated and turned into a full-time alternative school for students. • Es are mixed SES - some new but some very old facilities • Example: Altizer elementary; you can walk right inside the school. There are no enclosures. • Finding, staffing, less testing, First aid, etc. • For such large schools, there is a lack of space for after school athletic programs. • High school should start to prepare children to become adults. There are not enough life courses. • High schools are built for block schedules, yet the county abandoned that for the all mighty dollar. • Hygienic and costly to repair over and over. • I am only experienced with Cabell midland, but from being a student there, it should be modernized. • I believe some elementary schools are older and need lots of updates to improve general mental and

physical health. • I believe that redistricting must be made a top priority for Cabell county schools. • I believe the middle and high schools have been updated, but most of the elementary schools are still

outdated. • I think that the schools need to be redistricted. It hasn’t been done since all these consolidations. • Fear of consolidation. • Itinerants, social workers, slps, ots, pts. • It's also helpful for parents who didn't grow up in the age of technology. • Kids are reading at 4th grade level in high school. The teacher told me I shouldn't worry. • Need a larger auditorium, more lunch time in high school. • Student communication. • Vtech shield class. • Layout of facilities needs improved for elementary schools to provide increased opportunities for learning. • Learning to read. • Leave meadows alone or rebuild on the same lot. • Many elementary schools are older and need renovating or replaced. • Many of the elementary schools are in very poor condition. All three areas have curricular issues. • Many of the older buildings are inaccessible for disabled people. • There’s not enough parking. • Middle school sizes need to be evaluated. • Middle schools are not at all equitable in grounds, green space and socio economics. • Middle schools need performance space that can accommodate large audiences and not take up gym. • Milton has been overcrowded for years and is in a flood plain. Others also in flood plains are not safe. • More areas or rooms for smaller class sizes. Go back to the basics and build on them. Be real • More classrooms • More outdoor areas, cox landing could use significant improvements for the students in that region • Most of our elementary schools are outdated and small. We have some classes on a cart. • Much worse for wear as far as student and teacher desks, walls, carpeting, ceilings, etc. • Need more space and equipment for improved classes • Need more things students will like • Need to be safer. All schools in the county including older schools need updated entrances. • Need to have textbooks to bring home and refer to when doing homework or to just to read and study. • Need to replace old elementary schools • New elementary schools. Updates to high schools. • Newer and bigger schools. • Noses they need access to water to help them clean up. • Not enough bathrooms, not enough room on lunch for kids to sit at a table. Cafe max is 500, we have more

than that. • Nurses need an area to work with and access to a sink. When children have scraps, get sick, or bloody, they

cannot even wash off in there. • The power flickers on and off or just goes off completely. Of course, this is only a few days. • Of course, the lack of librarians to foster reading is a travesty. • Of each other needs redistricting. Need a new Milton elementary school. The old Highlawn. • Older elementary schools need a “man trap” for the safety of students and staff. • Older schools lack basic electrical needs to utilize all of the technology available. • Only is growing. • Opportunities • Most of the education in the future will be via on-line courses, with physical attendance limited. • Our schools need to be safer for our students, with accommodations for smaller class sizes. • Overcrowding is a huge issue at Vobe. Many teachers in that building must go room to room to teach.



• Physical wellness of both staff and students. • Proper grammar needs to be given more emphasis. Verbal communications from teachers. • Provide more funding to the arts programs so they can afford items they need to allow the program to

flourish. • Put in a system that holds teachers and administration accountable for their actions towards students. • Reach its max potential. • Rebuilt at current location without consolidation. • Redistricting would align most elementary. Redistricting could be planned out to not disrupt a student’s

education too much. • Safety entrances. • School and flooding. • Schools are not equitable in community schools. Socioeconomics are so terribly unbalanced. • Schools are too big for individualized attention. Principals don't even know the students personally. • Schools desperately need an update. • With more schools there is fewer behavioral problems and mental health can be addressed more readily. • Seating, lighting and sound. Many elementary schools use this auditorium for their performances. • Secondary schools need to be adjusted to have more flexible learning spaces and opportunities. • Security and safety needs upgraded at high schools • Should have to choose a career in high school. It is ridiculous. • Small community college in area. Way too big. • Smaller size. Longer lunch, more lunches for smaller size and everyone can have a seat and not on the

floor. Lettings students have an opinion on a school issue and not turn them down. • Some are new and some are older than dirt. Some of the new facilities that are built are already too

overcrowded • Some of the elementary schools are in poor repair and are in need of updated security features. • Some of the elementary schools are very outdated and unsafe. Central heating and air should be in every

school. • Some of the elementary schools need to be updated as most are out of space and ran down. • Some way to better deal with high wind/rain/snow. • Special education rooms for pullouts are too small. • Need more classrooms so that can have lower student-teacher ratio. This is the key to success other than

accountability. Leadership needs to do the right thing even when there are consequences. Hold principals accountable. Principals hold teachers accountable

• Students who constantly have behaviors, so they can get the help they need, and other students can still learn.

• Summer reading and teaching programs. Many of these kids don't understand how a checkbook works or how to sew.

• Teachers again, need ones that are not like a robot that teaches a test and does not really care if the child learns.

• Technology is being pushed too much in the schools and the basic skills are getting missed. • Enables a problem to grow with teachers getting away with bullying and mentally abusing their students. • The combining of middle schools have increased the class sizes instead of making them smaller. • The high schools are too big and need broken back up into 4 smaller schools • The HVAC system at HHS has been bad since it was built. The sporting facilities are not equal to for the

programs at each end of the county. • The infrastructure of the facilities will not help or hinder in a child's education. • The middle schools in Huntington lack outdoor spaces and sports facilities. No green spaces, no football

fields, no tracks, no blue space = no opportunity to fundraise via sporting events instead of paying fees to use high school facilities.

• The new facilities need to be built big enough to accommodate the students presently. • The older elementary schools desperately need renovated/remodeled or replaced. • The rural elementary schools need to be brought up to par with those in the city areas. • There are currently 14 bus stops on Martha Road. All students at those bus stops go to school. • There are still a few older elementary schools. • There is not enough room for all the students. Plus at least one of the high schools is too small. • Things are far too worksheet/kill and drill/traditional. I hate the academies at high school. • Time and space. • To tell them how much to give back that they never learn how to do it without the technology. • Too many kids at our high schools • Too many kids in the newer high schools. Kids who struggle are falling through the cracks. • Updated furnishings. • Updated technology, more bathrooms, safety, etc. • Updated to allow for expanded programming; HS CTE spaces need to afford growth opportunities too. • Updates. • Updates for the mold. • Updating rural schools



• Very outdated. • Village of Barboursville. The bus turns around right across the bridge from Martha elementary. • Visited lack of space for conference rooms and one on one direct instruction and intervention rooms. • Were normal kids at Huntington high. We are failing kids in elementary. We need smaller classes. Or we

need more space for all of our schools and smaller class sizes. • We still have a lot of older schools. We have Barboursville, Martha and Nichols within a few minutes. • Many can't do basic math. They have no idea how to make change. They rely too much on the register. • Windows, heating needs, etc. • Written communication from schools reflect negatively on the quality of education being provided.

• A school is a place for students and families to feel comfortable and feel that they can go to for help. • A sense of community and family. • A swimming pool. • A variety of programs, invigorating the students and their families, is central to making a school the hub of

the community. Modern facilities combined with an engaging learning environment allows for a sense of community beneficial to the citizens of Cabell midland.

• A welcoming modern school facility that encourages community involvement to address the needs of students.

• Access (decent roads, parking), good facilities. • Access to community resources. Frequency and usefulness of events. Multi-generational / cultural

services. • Accessibility and how welcoming the school are to all stakeholders. • Accessibility for everyone, activities that involve community, after school events, etc. • Active community involvement. Students should want to be part of the school. • Activities and access that are of interest to the community. Also, having an atmosphere where community

members feel welcome and feel that their involvement is valued. • After hours use by a variety of community groups. • After school activities. • Afterschool where meals are served free to kids. Who need to be there until around 6 pm. • All student’s parents and teachers are together to learn and get education for students. • All the students and families within the school. Schools that have lots of activities for families to do. • Allow public use after hours to involve the community.

Q8

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Altizer Elementary School 1 0 13 10 6 34 5 2 18 14 1 64 0

Central City Elementary School 9 6 43 5 1 21 3 0 7 12 1 58 0

Cox Landing Elementary School 0 0 16 13 5 27 5 4 21 11 1 60 0

Culloden Elementary School 16 9 54 1 0 9 1 1 3 11 1 57 0

Davis Creek Elementary School 3 1 17 7 4 33 9 5 25 10 0 54 0

Explorer Academy 16 9 71 1 1 10 0 0 9 12 0 35 0

Guyandotte Elementary School 10 5 36 4 2 27 3 0 8 12 1 52 0

Highlawn Elementary School 2 2 14 6 2 15 8 4 33 12 0 60 1

Hite-Saunders Elementary School 0 0 9 12 5 38 3 2 14 14 1 60 0

Martha Elementary School 14 9 63 3 0 14 0 0 2 12 0 46 0

Meadows Elementary School 1 0 12 9 4 47 7 5 23 12 0 42 0

Milton Elementary School 4 0 24 7 5 23 8 5 27 10 0 50 0

Nichols Elementary School 3 1 30 15 8 36 2 1 10 9 0 50 0

Ona Elementary School 2 0 16 14 5 42 3 5 13 10 0 53 0

Salt Rock Elementary School 0 0 13 10 5 34 3 1 10 16 2 64 0

Southside Elementary School 13 9 64 3 1 13 1 0 2 12 0 44 0

Spring Hill Elementary School 4 3 28 10 4 32 2 1 11 14 1 51 0

Village of Barboursville Elementary School 18 7 73 3 2 13 0 0 4 8 0 36 0

Barboursville Middle School 21 10 79 3 0 13 0 0 0 5 0 37 0

Huntington East Middle School 19 7 70 0 2 16 3 1 5 7 0 33 0

Huntington Middle School 13 8 67 8 1 16 2 1 3 7 0 35 0

Milton Middle School 20 10 80 3 0 10 0 0 2 6 0 34 0

Cabell Midland High School 16 3 76 12 5 23 0 0 10 1 0 21 0

Huntington High School 16 4 70 11 4 22 0 0 12 3 0 24 0

Crossroads Academy 2 0 23 6 5 16 3 2 14 18 2 69 0

Cabell County Career Technology Center 5 1 38 10 4 28 7 4 12 8 0 48 0

What is your perception of the overall physical condition and educational suitability of the District's facilities?

Good Fair Poor Don't Know / No Opinion No Consensus

Q9 What do you believe makes a school the hub of a community?



• An environment that encourages students to educated themselves for the better. • Athletics and extra-curricular activities are what draws the attention and pride of a community. • Athletics. • Attractive, clean building with useful programs and community involvement. • Be ADA compliance. All playground equipment should contain equipment like a swing for kids. • Being in neighborhood schools • Being in the community in which most of its students live within a 10-minute commute. • Being in the community. • Being open and available. Activities and access that are of interest to the community. Also, having an

atmosphere where community members feel welcome and feel that their voice and involvement is valued. • Being open to everyone. I understand the security concern, but the current schools don't seem very open. • Being used in the community. • Believe it is more important, and even if parents aren't involved, they’re getting well known in the community. • Brings families together for parent/ student activities after school hours. The school should be utilized. • Brings new families into the area, more economic growth as a result. • Buildings that they see as purposeful to them and their families. • By the school that meet needs in the community. • Cabell county technology is too small. Too hard to add new programs for kids to prepare them for the future. • Can’t get to the school unless they take the tta. • Central location in a neighborhood. • Central location, accessibility. • Children are our future. • Civic organization within the school interacting with the community. • Classrooms that don’t feel “un-inviting”. That school is old and needs to have updates made to it. • Communication with the community. • Community + family involvement and engagement. • Community access to facilities, academic performance, athletic and extra-curricular offerings. • Community and parent involvement, accessibility for community programs, sports, arts, and music

performances. • Community and parent involvement. Schools located within the community. • Community engagement. • Community involvement • Community involvement activities that reach out to all, not just the facility families. • Community involvement by the local businesses as well as community members, and service projects. • Community outreach, family activities, after school programs for all students, late busses. • Disabilities. • Distance and accessible to most/all families. If it’s in a community, it will be utilized/accessed. • Education and well-being of each child. • Education of the students, not on toys for them to play with and accountability. • Encourage helping those less fortunate, ex. Sports for kids who may not have $ to participate in them. • Everyone knows someone in school, whether it be a friend, a friend of a friend, a relative, etc. • Extracurricular activities. • Facilities. • Family involvement in student programs. • Good leadership between staff and community members • Good staff. • Good teachers who really care about their job. • Great leadership. • Having a wonderful staff, community support, and parent volunteers. • Host meets and pay to practice there. • How well it incorporates the community as part of the school. • Huntington high should have a pool! All local high schools use the Marshall pool for practice. • I believe that community involvement is not only student-based activities. • I believe that interactions with citizens of a community makes school the hub of the community such as

sporting events, academic competitions, and verbal promotions of a school. • I believe the schools should be involved around the community. • I feel like I’m more of a nuisance than a welcomed parent of a student when I am at the school. • If many community members visit school and use facilities for a multitude of activities. • If people feel their kids are safe there, they will come. • If you can do that, then you are into something. • Inaccessible on foot. • Individuals who help the community & allows use of the facilities to foster community outreach. • Invites the community into the school; makes it the hub of the community. • Involvement of the students in after school programming. • Issues are brought up.



• It focuses on academics while promoting community outreach, recognizes groups such as veterans. • It is a combination of things from special events to voting to the relationships that principals make. • It needs to actually be in a community. The two high schools are not in any communities. Their • It needs to be in a community and not on a “hill” away from everything. It needs to be walking • It provides a common experience for those in the local community. • It unites a community because our children are there. • It’s involvement in the community. • It's a gathering place. • Its usefulness and academic/technologic services, as well as its services/equipment for low incident. • Just existing. • Leaders actively pursue opportunities within the school. • Like medical coding, it's been like 30 years since anything been done to the building. All buildings need

updates. • Located in the center of the wheel. • Location and after-hours use. • Location and the facility making the students feel welcome. • Location, friendly staff. • Location, staff, family, smaller schools with closer environment (smaller class size). • Location. • Location. • Locations are inconvenient, especially Huntington high. Many of the families do not have cars. • Make parents owners in their school where their kids can go after school • Meets, and there are limitations to what they can schedule because Marshall swim team. • Members to volunteer or interact with the school is a great way to make the school the backbone of a

community. • More involved with their communities, more involved with their children and more involved in their own

school. • Neighborhood schools. Easy access for all families. Appropriate outdoor recreation areas. Adequate. • Open access to the community • Open to community. • Opening its doors for more after school events. Letting the public know/advise for school events. Letting

the public know when counselors are in and office officials. • Outdoor space, openness to community involvement (ie community circle @ explorer academy). • Parent involvement (even though they lie and say they do. All lies). Parents do not feel welcome. • Parent involvement in the school and in activities. • Parent involvement in the school is important in every area, but especially in low income and high drug

areas. • Parent/family engagement activities. Sports help a lot in the schools. • Parental involvement. • Parents being welcome into the school instead of being treated as outcast and being looked down upon. • Parents involvement. Good communication teachers/parents. • Parking. • Participate in together. • Partners. • People. If no one is involved with the school, then it is not going to be the "hub" of the community. • Physical arrangement of building and location in community. Relationship of school and community. • Physical location, lots of events and programs that gets people involved (not just students but community

too.) • Programs for all school kids, not only for educational but for emotional help and is also, a safe place. • Programs that integrate the learning to everyday / real life experiences. • Real transparency - not the kind that ccboe claims to have. Ex. Lsic - ccboe is trying to control and subdue.

Absence of discrimination - look who is/are on the pto's. Low ses elected? • Relationships with the community, parents, students and all stakeholders. • Relationships, sports, academics. • Resources • Resources, accessibility, and stakeholder engagement. Sports and arts performances to engage in the

community. • Safety and student behavior. • Safety is always a concern, but we must be available to the community. The facility must be open and

inviting. • School or use of facilities by groups like big brother, big sister. • Schools like Cox Landing need to be updated with new entrances for security and updated. • Schools small enough that everyone is like a family, with caring staff who can be familiar with students. • Schools touch all members of the community in one way or another. • Services to students and their families. Treating families with respect. • Small schools and community involvement.



• Staff and families in education and other activities within the school. • Strong curriculum and resources for students to achieve. • Students/residents. • Swim club have priority. Swimming is flourishing in WV, and money can be generated. • Talked down to and the administration and teachers are not willing to work with parents/students. • Teachers and administrators. • Teachers, admin, after hours activities. • Technology. • The ability for the school to be used for things other than just educational purposes. Open to church groups,

community groups, youth sports, etc. • The building/staff make usefulness outside of school day. Parents feel welcomed. • The community program by justice is a joke. It’s not doing anything to help. We have kids who are hungry

and need help in their homes. We need to work w/ hospitals and doctors’ offices. Get info when a child is born and send helpful parent tips to prepare them for school life. Like put on a jacket, wipe their face when it’s dirty.

• The community. • The engagement and support of the community within the school. Students, parents, and community. • The feeling of being welcome to be involved in school activities. The active involvement of faculty. • The kids interact in school even if they don't in the neighborhoods. • The location. Most schools are not neighborhood schools; therefore, there is less community

involvement/parent involvement. No ownership. • The outside aesthetics are pleasing. There are programs that involve families. • The people in it and their relationship to the children in the community. • The people that work in it. The relationships that are made. • The question is at the heart of what's happening. People need to be more involved with their schools, • The school must be located near the center of its student population if it is to act as a hub. • The school that is involved in community projects and a community that is unloved and invested in • The staff. • The teachers • The teachers, activities held there and the pta/pto • Those involved in it. • Time allocated to the formation and operation of clubs in our school system. • Upon for trying to help their children, the schools in this area have a bad reputation for not wanting to. • What they are doing instead of just being there for a paycheck? • When community members attend events. • Whether during an event or meeting with the staff. • Yes.



OTHER:

• Arts over sports. • Building a pool. • Children having space to learn and play outside. • Ensuring the buildings have room for all classes, support personnel and specialists. • Environment. Maintaining safety while also not impacting a teacher’s ability to teach (so many knocks on

doors to be let in). • Equal funding throughout the county. • Equitable distribution of special education classes. • Having a place at the school for sports teams to have practice. • Keep our schools small; consolidation hurts kids and communities • Kids are on busses for too long. • Making school warm and inviting. Providing different options in the classroom for seating, etc. • Need testing on pre-k for learning disability. Get them help before kindergarten. • Outdoor activities + a place to have them. • Providing enough staff for student population, full time nurse in every school. • Providing some classrooms with one-way mirrors to help with observations without impacting the kids. • Redistricting. • Smaller class sizes.

Q10

IND GRP WEB

Demolish the building, but keep the land

for future use or sale (Land-Bank) 8 4 33

Find the most cost beneficial use or sale

of the property regardless of what the site

becomes 14 1 65

Maintain the unoccupied building for

potential future use. (Keeping in mind that

it has expended its useful life) 1 1 3

Sell any surplus properties. 4 1 22

The District should exhaust all

opportunities to find a new non-

instructional use within the District 3 2 17

No Consensus 1

If it is determined that a building has reached the end

of its useful life, which is the best action for building

disposition?

Q11


Addressing facility condition issues (permanent

improvement) 2 0 0 8 1 43 22 9 95 0 0 2 0

Bring all facilities to ADA (handicap accessible)

compliance 0 0 2 4 0 35 28 10 99 0 0 2 0

Enhancing technology infrastructure 1 0 8 10 1 50 21 9 82 0 0 1 0

Enhancing safety and security 0 0 2 3 0 24 29 10 112 0 0 0 0

Increasing operating revenue for educational

services 3 0 15 11 1 63 15 8 53 3 0 5 1

Transportation Time 3 2 14 15 3 57 12 5 63 2 0 1 0

Other 0 0 3 0 0 3 1 2 10 0 0 16 0

Please rate the following actions based on level of importance.

Not Important Important Very Important Don't Know / No Opinion No Consensus



OTHER:

• A behavioral school for elementary school kids. • Current eba. • Ell. • I would like to see arts, stem, etc magnets at secondary. • I’m somewhat confused by this question. • Magnet school maybe for stem and performing arts. • Mental health support services - needs to be at every building and to have multiple staff to help deal with

issues. • More behavior programs at every school and an alternative elementary school/program beyond. • Person to help get kids services. • Pool at hhs. • Sports and physical education. • Student’s homeschool. And for special education, you cannot offer services at a centralized location due to

fape and lre. • The reason I chose each school is because it reduces transportation. Students are already on buses to &

from school. Also, they should not feel "segregated" from other students by going to a different school.

Q12


Gifted 15 3 60 2 0 17 1 0 5 12 7 55 0

Fine Performing & Visual Arts 28 9 96 0 0 9 0 0 6 3 1 23 0

Special Education 24 8 109 3 0 7 2 0 6 1 0 17 2

STEM (Science, Technology,

Engineering, Math) 20 6 100 5 3 9 2 0 9 3 1 19 0

Other 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0

The District offers a wide range of services/programs for students. In your opinion, where should these services be located in the

District?

Programs offered at each

school

A single centralized

center

One center in each

location

A combination of locations

& schoolsNo Consensus



OTHER:

• Aside from the ones at CCTC, all programs should be at bothHS's or the county should provide trans. • Entrepreneurial startups. • Expand CTE center to offer more and house more students. • Expand CTE. • General education should offer a taste of technical discipline. If you want to learn a trade go to a trade

school. • I don't know. • Patient care technician (pre-nursing ) is for adults only at the CTE center. • Swim classes. • Trades programs.

Q13


Aerospace Engineering 3 0 6 10 2 72 13 5 49 0

Army ROTC 5 2 6 17 4 104 5 1 15 0

Administrative Support

(Business) 2 0 4 14 4 86 5 2 35 0

Project Lead the Way (Pre-

Engineering) 2 0 3 17 4 92 6 2 34 0

Therapeutic Services (Pre-

Nursing) 1 0 2 15 5 80 9 2 48 0

Careers in Education 1 1 4 19 5 98 6 1 21 0

ProStart/Restaurant

Management 0 0 6 16 5 73 12 3 50 0

Machine Trades 0 0 1 5 1 28 26 6 96 0

Carpentry 0 0 1 5 1 26 23 5 98 0

Welding 1 0 1 3 1 26 23 6 99 0

Graphic Design 0 0 4 14 3 64 17 5 62 0

Automotive Technology 0 0 1 4 1 20 20 7 104 0

Electricity 0 0 1 3 0 21 24 8 103 0

HVAC 0 0 1 4 0 19 24 8 105 0

Collision Repair 1 0 1 1 1 17 21 7 104 0

Building Maintenance and

Operations 0 0 1 3 2 27 19 5 95 0

Building Technology 0 0 2 7 1 42 17 5 85 0

Law and Public Safety 1 0 6 14 5 74 10 2 45 0

Administrative Support 1 1 4 13 4 79 5 1 43 0

A+ Certification 0 0 5 11 4 65 7 3 44 0

Coding, App and Game Design 3 0 4 19 4 82 13 4 41 0

Cosmetology 0 0 8 8 0 28 15 7 87 0

Air Force ROTC 6 2 13 11 4 87 6 1 28 0

Patient Care Technician (Pre-

Nursing ) 2 0 2 16 7 69 10 3 55 0

Animal Systems 1 0 10 11 3 68 10 4 49 0

Agribusiness 2 0 12 10 5 67 8 2 51 0

Agricultural Mechanics 2 0 11 10 4 56 9 3 61 0

Plant Systems 1 0 11 10 5 66 9 2 45 0

Pharmacy Technician 1 0 5 13 4 70 9 3 53 0

Health Informatics Careers 0 0 4 14 5 77 8 3 42 0

Other 0 0 2 0 0 8 2 1 2 0

Please indicate where you believe the following Career and Technical Education programs should be

housed?

One HS Both HS's CTE Center No Consensus



OTHER:

• Ada compliance. • Add into career technology center so we can have careers options for students. • Cooks to support a supper meal + help it expand. Smaller busses that might transport students to / from

other activities. • Equipment and staffing to support CTE programs. • Honestly, I don't trust this administration to be fiscally responsible so I would vote anything down. • I would not support a levy if it was used to over supply the county with technology. • Make a budget & stick to it. City of Huntington already taxes & streets are terrible. City needs to stop wasting

money & improve infrastructure. • Missing athletic facilities. • More social workers and nurses and school psychologists. • New tennis courts. • Not athletic facility. • Stop wasting money on the guy who goes around checking on computers. • Swimming pool. • Teacher training with empathy and emotional training, and also anger management for

teachers/administration. • The cameras never seem to work in schools. • To attract and keep highly qualified educators and/or bring back librarians.

• 45 minutes early. • A great push for this school would be to get class sizes down and more lunches for student safety. Also

letting the vocational school know about announcements and letting them be included. • A lot of first grade are still not mature and need a lot of help. There needs to be a plan in classrooms. • A pool should be built at one of the high schools. This would allow both high school swim teams to excel. • Academics and safety are extremely important, but athletics build character, social skills, etc. • Access in and out of the schools are bottle necked. It would be amazing for everyone’s sanity to improve it. • Accessible or doesn’t have restrooms that are accessible. • Adding 3 lunches so students do not have to sit on the floor to eat. • Administration need to operate in a responsible manner. • Afraid to do much, they seem to be afraid of parents threatening to sue them. • Allow central office to support the student and staff appropriately. • Allow for teachers to teach and the micromanaging and paperwork declined or shifted.

Q14


At Middle Schools 22 9 99 5 1 28 5 0 8 0

At High Schools 28 10 125 3 0 10 2 0 2 0

At CTE Center 27 10 125 1 0 4 3 0 6 0

Should career and technical education (CTE) be integrated into Cabell's curriculum?

Yes No Don't know/No opinion No Consensus

Q15


Addressing facility condition

issues (permanent improvement)2 0 4 5 0 18 26 10 116 0 0 3 0

Enhancing technology

infrastructure (e.g. computer

networking, WiFi, etc.) 3 0 9 4 1 37 25 9 91 0 0 3 0

Enhancing overall access to

technology to support learning

(e.g. computers, tablets, etc.) 2 1 13 8 1 36 21 7 89 0 0 3 0

Enhancing safety and security

(e.g. cameras, proximity cards,

safe school entrances, etc.) 1 0 5 3 1 27 28 9 106 0 0 3 0

Sustainable/energy efficient

upgrades 3 0 8 9 2 42 17 8 85 1 0 4 0

Other 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 14 0 0 6 0

How likely would it be that you would support a bond issue/levy renewal for the following:

No Maybe Yes Don't Know / No Opinion No Consensus

Q16 Is there anything else you would like for us to consider?



• Also, some opportunities to meet professionals like doctors or engineers at their school. • An additional way to get to college. • Be pumped up. • Be removed from schools, hire, train, and use Cabell county employees, and place them in every school. • Behaviors. • Breakfast when they first get to school. There is no need for my kid to have to eat in a rush. • Bring back schoolbooks and stay away from the internet/ipads/tablets. • Brought on by personal and family trauma. In combination, these contribute to overall student physical

health. • Build a pool for Cabell county students to use. • Building another CTE center. • Class sizes need to be made a priority! • Class sizes. It’s just too hard. I worked in self-contained special ed rooms for several years and they’re

overcrowded. • Consolidation. Smaller schools are better schools. Sometimes, a school should be replaced. • Construction of a swimming facility at Huntington high school • County to provide cutting edge services to students, there could be a lot more.... But it’s hard. • Curriculum that is suited to help sustain jobs, not just going directly into college. • Doesn't matter what discipline that you teach, it is the discipline itself that matters. • Drop off/after school times at the high schools • Easily keep the same school • Easy to apply...we have some facilities that don’t even have handicap parking for students, staff, and

visitors. • Education is what is left over after the student has forgotten everything that was learned. It can get back to

learning. • Every school should have a self-contained room so some schools don’t get overloaded. • Expanding career orientation across the district in all forms • Expanding the scope of background checks for teachers and administrators with regular checks. • Failure, the most valuable asset to any community is its local school. We have had too much. • Football and track for all middle schools. Pe works on improving kids’ health. A track would help that. • Give all science departments a bigger budget. Give middle school science teachers supplies needed. • Gives no reason as to why sports teams get new equipment every year, while a lot of arts programs have

had the same equipment for years. (such as art supplies, music, costumes, etc) • Have practice and allow that high school to offer swimming as a physical education class. • Having a high school with a pool would really set our county apart from others in the state. • Health and together these affect student attitudes/perspectives/motivation. • Hours to put on resumes and things like that. Teaching them to do nice things for these organizations • I think that there needs to be an elementary behavioral school for students who are a risk. • I think that we should invest in led lighting and go with solar so that when the electric goes out, we will still

have light. • I understand that sporting events tend to rack up more money than fine art events, but we still need art. • I want to volunteer but can’t climb the hill to get to the school. • If said students have not been successful in the traditional school setting, those students need support

services, and offices in schools for those services to happen - it can be difficult to provide • Install pool at both high schools. • Integrated behavior facility. • Keep elementary schools small. • Keeping small neighborhood elementary schools-no more consolidation. Returning to small. • Lifeguarding class, ROTC, physical therapy for athletes and off-season conditioning for all sports. • Making both ends of the county, basically the high schools, equal both in facility, programs, and available

spaces. • Mental and emotional issues among young people are at an all-time high. • Mental health services, if there is no private space to do those services. • MES needs a new building desperately. • Milton/barboursville. Put the needs of the students first (did not happen during the teachers’ strike.) • More charities and community service opportunities for students. Kids are available and want the help. • More cooks to help support a supper meal and help it expand. Smaller busses that can transport students

to and from other activities. Bring back libraries and a librarian for each school! • More support, we need more teachers and smaller class sizes and it should be a focus for Cabell. • Need to have better relationships with the local colleges and community businesses. • Needed to help with both testing referrals and social/emotional/behavioral concerns. • Neighborhood elementary schools. Redistricting for equity. • No matter how great of a facility that you can build, it will only be as good as the leaders who are there. • No... • Non-biased accountability team that comes unannounced to monitor teachers, aides, and custodians. More

cameras - especially ones that work.



• Not supporting teacher strikes. All the rest of us do that on our own time. • Of recognition, not just sports. Also, sports programs get a larger amount of money than arts. • Offering our students, the best that we can within each building that they learn in. • Office who are to support the curriculum delivery. This would maximize achievement for students and

opportunities for the schools, staff, and students. • Our dropout rate county wide. We need to make the career center more available to us highly at risk. • People often don't know how to have healthy personal relationships, develop empathy/compassion. • Please build a pool at HHS. • Please consider trying to equally balance funding county projects. Huntington schools, especially the middle

schools, do not appear to be equally prioritized. • Pool pool pool at HHS • Provide additional parking at explorer academy. It’s a shame the money that was spent on redistricting • Relations with community but we need to keep good teachers, many are leaving. • Remodel career center • Renovation, access and parking is probably worse than any school in the county. • Rooms for all students, staff and classes including specialists and support personnel. • Safety is top priority, keep building the man traps in the schools that don’t have them. • Same property as the original school. Meadows could benefit from a bus loop. • School an hour early and another one is coming in ten minutes late. • Schools need to show support to all programs. • Schools. They can i d kids that need help because they are there every day. Teachers are frustrated. • Should be among the first to get the chance to be successful at the career center. • Simple things could be done now to help with some ADA compliance issues. Blue paint is cheap. • Skills education in middle school; home economics, sewing, wood shop, etc. • Sports more often then they promote arts, stem, beta, etc events. All programs deserve a moment. • Springhill always has the biggest class sizes in the county and it’s very hard to work in those rooms. • Staff need to be better trained. Also, administration of some buildings needs to be addressed. • Start time adjustments for CTE center to accommodate transportation issues. • Started to deal with drug babies, they can’t help how they were born but they can be a handful. • Stop interrupting my education over some small bull crap and look at your students. • Stop letting busses dictate the school schedule. There is no reason one kid should be getting to school late. • Students should be exposed to topics/classes that will help them to function in society. Cooking, and

industrial arts still need to be in the schools. Even learning how to use a check book. Life skills are needed. Special education students really need these topics. Concerned a new levy won’t be used correctly. Needless program doesn’t work. Where does the homeless money go that is in budget?

• The administration sets the tone for the entire school. • The kids and more security procedure checks for staff and better protections/procedures in place for their

public social media accounts to ensure they are proper role models for their students. • The white boards were good enough. The tv's aren’t touch screen for non-title schools. • There needs to be aides in the first grade. • They run around the building, but child has balance or vision issue it would be hard. A track would be

helpful. • To ensure that there is friendly staff at schools to succeed. • Traffic flow was better by separating the two directions of families coming and leaving every single day. • Traffic issues at some schools. • Transportation to schools within 5 miles via bus for kids previously enrolled. • Two entrances and two exits which merge away from the main roads and on school grounds. • Visitors. Everyone talks about grandfathering in facilities in regard to ADA compliance. • Want my kids attending due to the administration and how they treat students. • We have family members who can’t even come to their child's activities because the building isn't fully

accessible. • We need to really look at the Cabell county career and technical center. We need to offer more. • We should spend as much money as we can on education but expect the best education. • When looking at improvements or new construction, please be sure there is adequate space and space for

people with a disability. At some point common sense decency and respect for others must be considered. • Yes - supporting both high schools equally. Same for the Huntington middle schools and HS. • You need to consider that in 10 yrs. There probably won't be many classrooms. Need to have online.



DEMOGRAPHICS

OTHER:

• Board • Business owner • Citizen • Local government

Q17

IND WEB

< 18 years old 5 6

18-24 years old 1 2

25-39 years old 6 44

40-55 years old 11 70

>55 years old 6 24

Age

Q18

IND WEB

Parent/Guardian 15 94

Faculty/Staff of Cabell County Schools 14 78

Student 5 7

Interested Resident 8 16

Other 2 2

Which group best represents you?

Please check all that apply.

Q19

IND WEB

Yes 25 136

No 3 11

Are you a resident of Cabell

County Schools?

Q20

IND WEB

Less than 2 2 3

6 - 10 10 4

11 - 15 0 12

16 - 20 4 13

16 - 20 6 19

More than 20 18 88

Not Applicable 0 8

How many years have you lived in

the Cabell County School District?



OTHER:

• All students matter

IND WEB IND WEB

All 6 14 Ona Elementary School 0 8

None 2 4 Salt Rock Elementary School 0 9

Altizer Elementary School 0 6 Southside Elementary School 0 10

Central City Elementary School 0 7 Spring Hill Elementary School 2 8

Cox Landing Elementary School 0 3 Village of Barboursville Elementary School 7 20

Culloden Elementary School 1 6 Barboursville Middle School 6 30

Davis Creek Elementary School 0 9 Huntington East Middle School 4 19

Explorer Academy 2 21 Huntington Middle School 2 15

Guyandotte Elementary School 0 5 Milton Middle School 2 20

Highlawn Elementary School 0 7 Cabell Midland High School 13 42

Hite-Saunders Elementary School 0 7 Huntington High School 7 38

Martha Elementary School 0 9 Crossroads Academy 1 3

Meadows Elementary School 0 9 Cabell County Career Technology Center 4 12

Milton Elementary School 3 13 Other 0 2

Nichols Elementary School 1 11

Q21With which Cabell County school(s) are you affiliated?

Please select all that apply

Q22

IND WEB

Yes 16 3

No 13 142

Are you a member of the Steering

Committee?

Documents

Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan Educational