Educational facilities are valuable assets that require priority attention in their establishment, development, and maintenance. They consist of school sites, buildings, and resources that support student learning and skills development. Educational facilities refer to all physical properties of a school, including grounds, buildings, and resources within. Quality facility design that enhances safety and teaching should be a priority, as it can improve student achievement and teacher retention. Educational facility planning should involve community collaboration and anticipate maintenance needs through a proactive approach.

1. Facility Design and
Student Achievement
Fiscal Management
Karlo Magno V. Arroyo

2. Overview
Educational Facilities (facility design) are
valuable assets of the school that have to be
given priority attention in terms of its
establishment, procurement, development,
improvement, maintenance, records keeping
and accountabilities. These consist of sites,
buildings and various educational facilities
which are the major support system of the
school to enhance the learning capabilities
of the students for the maximum
development of their skills and potentials.

3. Educational Facilities Defined
The term “educational facilities” or “facility
design” refers to all the physical
properties of a school, consisting of the
grounds, buildings, and the various
facilities within the school grounds and
inside the school buildings.
Also known as the school plant or the
physical facilities of a school.

4. Importance of Facilities/Facility
Design and Student Achievement
Educational facilities are considered
indispensable to a school, they do not
only provide housing for the school but
also reserve as facilitating agents for all
the educational activities that take place in
school.
The availability of safe, secured, adequate
and satisfactory educational facilities will
support the teaching and learning
processes and ultimately improve the
quality of education for all.

5. Quality Facility Design Keep
Qualified Teachers and
Performing Students
As reported in a recent Education Week
article claims that school facilities
should:
 Enhance teaching and learning and
accommodate the needs of all learners;
 Serve as a center of the community;
 Results from a planning and design
process that involves all community
interests;
 Provide for health, safety, and security;

6. Quality Facility Design Keep
Qualified Teachers and
Performing Students
> make effective use of available
resources; and
> be flexible and adaptable
The report presents research that links the
condition of school facilities and the level
of student achievement.
The report concludes that districts and the
state must first work to ensure safe and
healthy schools and to ensure conditions
that most directly affect student
achievement.

7. Basic Principles On Educational
Facilities/Facility Design
Primary Function Of Educational facilities:
 To provide the proper school environment
that is most conducive to effective teaching
and learning.
 It shall be responsive to changes in
teaching methods and school organization
taking into consideration the changes in
educational process which has become
more active, interrelated, and has become
an integral part of the wider community.

8. Educational Facility Planning
and Design Process Principles
1. Maximize collaboration in school planning
involving a wide spectrum of representatives
from the community.
e.g. Administrative decision-makers, parents,
business and community leaders, technical
people, teachers, school administrators, and
students.
2. Build a proactive facility management
program which anticipates facility problems
during the planning phase like maintenance
and operations of the educational facilities.

9. Educational Facility Planning
and Design Process Principles
3. Plan schools as neighborhood-scaled
community learning centers.
RELATED INFORMATIONS:
1. Re Facility Design
What should be considered in designing
new public school infrastructure in a city
like Marikina? And given the number of
school buildings already existing in the
city, what can be done to retrofit them to
make them hazard-resilient?

10. Related Informations:
For answers, Inquirer sat down with Jose
Danilo A. Silvestre, dean of the College of
Architecture who is also a licensed
environmental planner, and Nicolo del
Castillo, assistant professor of architecture
whose specialization is sustainable
architecture, both with the University of the
Philippines, as well as John Joseph T.
Fernandez, dean of University of Santo
Tomas College of Architecture.

11. All three agreed that, given the
limited resources of LGUs, which
are mainly responsible for the
physical facilities of public
schools, the new school or
retrofitting design should be
simple, should use local building
materials, and should be easy
and inexpensive to maintain.

12. Related Informations:
2. Re Facility Budget
Naninindigan tayo, ang edukasyon ay
susi sa pagbukas ng oportunidad upang
labanan ang kahirapan. PNOY
To support these reforms, this
administration plans to eliminate all
resource gaps classrooms, teachers,
textbooks, among others – by next year.
With this in mind, we have once again
greatly increased the DepEd budget.

13. Related Informations:
• We have raised it by 22.6 percent to
P292.7 billion, from P238.8 billion this
year.
In particular, we increased funding for the
Basic Educational Facilities and the
School Building Program by more than
50 percent – from P17.4 billion this year
to P26.3 billion in 2013. All in all, we
expect 30,789 classrooms to be
constructed and rehabilitated next year,
which will finally close the classroom gap.

14. Conclusion
Maintaining school facilities is important to
providing high quality education programs. More
importantly, by investing in strong preventative
maintenance programs, school can continue to
serve students for long periods of time.
Modernization of school facilities has faced a
number of new challenges in recent years with the
advent of the personal computer. As new
technologies are increasingly integrated into
programs on instruction, the ability to adequately
finance the acquisition of this equipment and to
have the infrastructure in each school to support
this technology is also important.

15. MARAMING
SALAMAT!
Karlo Magno V. Arroyo