Essentials Magazine Essentials Summer 2014 | Page 11

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
Table 2 - School Construction Completed in 2013 (000’s)
Region

New
Schools

Additions

Renovation

Total
New

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
NATL

$482,001
$339,091
$533,600
$306,417
$702,530
$176,276
$592,104
$229,898
$898,476
$191,406
$359,382
$295,600
$383,814
$127,418
$500,200
$167,763
$1,337,417 $510,595
$562,112
$134,855
$917,300
$446,451
$304,500
$133,569
$7,573,436 $3,059,338
47.6%
24.2%

$209,071
$492,730
$184,076
$141,118
$112,557
$260,406
$139,798
$212,840
$432,058
$141,997
$311,471
$119,499
$2,757,622
28.2%

$1,030,162
$1,332,746
$1,062,883
$963,121
$1,202,439
$915,388
$651,029
$880,802
$2,280,071
$838,964
$1,675,223
$557,568
$13,390,396

% Reg Is
Of Nation

% of Spending For
46.8%
40.0%
66.1%
61.5%
74.7%
39.3%
59.0%
56.8%
58.7%
67.0%
54.8%
54.6%
56.6%

Addition
32.9%
23.0%
16.6%
23.9%
15.9%
32.3%
19.6%
19.0%
22.4%
16.1%
26.7%
24.0%
22.8%

Renovation
20.3%
37.0%
17.3%
14.7%
9.4%
28.4%
21.5%
24.2%
18.9%
16.9%
18.6%
21.4%
20.6%

7.7%
10.0%
7.9%
7.2%
9.0%
6.8%
4.9%
6.6%
17.0%
6.3%
12.5%
4.2%
100.0%

To read this table: Public schools in Region 1 (New England) completed new buildings worth more than $482 million in 2013. They also put in place
$339 million in additions to existing buildings and spent $209 million on renovations. School districts in Region 1 completed about $1 billion of
school construction in 2013 with 46.8% of those dollars spent on new buildings, the balance on adding to and upgrading existing buildings. Region
1 accounted for 7.7% of all school construction dollars spent on projects completed in the United States in 2013.

Table 3 - School Construction Projected to Start in 2014
Region

New Schools

Additions

Renovation

Total

% Reg Is
Of Nation

% of Spending For
New

Addition

Renovation

1

$426,500

$141,816

$108,693

$677,009

63.0%

20.9%

16.1%

7.2%

2

$657,980

$217,073

$251,486

$1,126,539

58.4%

19.3%

22.3%

11.9%

3

$546,330

$134,531

$125,006

$805,867

67.8%

16.7%

15.5%

8.5%

4

$386,201

$135,601

$114,408

$636,210

60.7%

21.3%

18.0%

6.7%

5

$494,990

$248,303

$131,100

$874,393

56.6%

28.4%

15.0%

9.3%

6

$244,978

$310,374

$118,680

$674,032

36.3%

46.0%

17.6%

7.1%

7

$263,310

$254,614

$103,779

$621,703

42.4%

41.0%

16.7%

6.6%

8

$170,520

$206,109

$106,409

$483,038

35.3%

42.7%

22.0%

5.1%

9

$849,582

$348,421

$268,876

$1,466,879

57.9%

23.8%

18.3%

15.5%

10

$245,340

$103,165

$145,177

$493,682

49.7%

20.9%

29.4%

5.2%

11

$699,300

$260,615

$102,967

$1,062,882

65.8%

24.5%

9.7%

11.3%

12

$242,570

$171,409

$103,534

$517,513

46.9%

33.1%

20.0%

5.5%

$5,227,601

$2,532,031

$1,680,116

$9,439,748

55.4%

26.8%

17.8%

100.0%

55.4%

NATL

26.8%