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Gaskin and Associates Consulting Group, LLC
NNPS proposal
October 8 2026
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Southeast campus capacity comparisons
The same 1,627 study pupils are tested against three possible two-campus footprints. All campus
pairs in this group are within three straight-line miles. Distance between campus points does not
establish student travel, safe walks, routes or attendance boundaries. [S03]
Baseline school
Pupils
Published
capacity
Current use
Whole-pupil 80 to 90%
band
Newsome Park NPES
445
966
46.1%
773 to 869
Discovery STEM DSES
497
828
60.0%
663 to 745
An Achievable Dream
Elementary AAES
685
1018
67.3%
815 to 916
Campus tested for release
Retained footprint
capacity
Combined use
Headroom at
90%
Screen result
Discovery
1,984
82.0%
158
Aggregate fit
Newsome Park
1,846
88.1%
34
Aggregate fit
An Achievable Dream
1,794
90.7%
−13
Fails 90% ceiling
The combined ceiling sums each receiver’s floor(0.90 × capacity), rather than rounding a combined
percentage up. Both fitting cases also admit allocations with each receiver between 80% and 90%;
those integer intervals and an example allocation follow. “Release” identifies the tested campus
footprint, not an adopted closure or the future use of the property.
What could reverse the apparent fit
The Discovery-release case tolerates at most 158 additional pupils across the two receivers at this
fixed ceiling, about 9.7% of the group baseline. The Newsome-release case tolerates 34, about 2.1%.
Grade bottlenecks, unusable rooms or required services can remove that apparent headroom even
without enrollment growth.
Discovery’s directory spans K–5, its Explorer location label says K–2 and its magnet entry description
identifies grades 3–5. Reconcile the program and room records before any grade placement. An
Achievable Dream and Newsome Park program admissions, services and continuity also require
explicit arrangements. [S54–S55, S10, S39]
Historical building years in Appendix A are Discovery 2016, Newsome Park 1967 and An Achievable
Dream Elementary 1961. These dates do not establish current condition. Each capacity comparison
also needs verified condition, required improvements, remaining useful life and committed spending
before an asset decision. Current capacity tests retain the Explorer denominators, including Newsome
Park’s 966; its historical 611 requires reconciliation rather than substitution. [S36–S37, S03]Jump to an indexed page (48 of 48)