After over 80 years having other uses, the origional Rayen School on Wick Avenue may once again be a public school according to the news.
The news reported that the new Rayen was not needed because the school system's enrollment has continue to decline.
Question
Does anyone know the yearly enrollment figures for the Youngstown city schools for the last twenty years?
The enrollment for the Youngstown City Schools will drop below 7,000 next year.
A couple of questions have arisen about turning the old Rayen back into a school.
1. How many classrooms are there?
2. How many are retrofitted for the use of computers?
3. How many would need to be extensively repaired?
In a word, how much would it cost to bring the schol up to today's standards?
As big as the building is, I wonder just how much of the total space the Board of Education actually used for offices and how much was used for storage, and how much just stood empty.
The last time it was used as a school was when YSU had it's school of engeneering there.
Other questions:
1. Does the building have an auditorium and gym?
2. If so, what condition are they in, and how much work would be needed to restore them?
3. What would be the total cost of the work for returning the building back into a school as opposed to building a new building?
Other than supplying adequate elecctrical power for a computer lab, setting
one up in the original Rayen School building would be a piece of cake. The
advent of wireless networks means that NO cables at all would need to be
installed for Internet and infrastructure networks.
Modern PCs only require a small fraction of the power that the old ones did,
thanks to advances in technology and "GREEN machines". (ie: the Energy Star
standards for power conservation).
If the city school system could supply a 60 to 100 amp panel (about that of a
single family home) for a computer lab, the entire lab could be setup and brought
online in a single day.