BRCS Vision Forum: November 3, 2016

2. 600,000
700,000
800,000
900,000
1,000,000
1,100,000
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040
North Dakota
Range of Population Growth
2010 - 2040
Expected High Low

3. Low, Expected and High Migration
Scenarios
Minot Area 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040
Low Scenario 89,967 103,736 111,041 118,213 123,724 128,043 131,418
High Scenario 89,967 103,736 118,550 131,434 141,361 148,967 154,959
Expected Scenario 89,967 103,736 114,796 124,823 132,542 138,505 143,189

5. Where We Are Going?
• Bishop Ryan Catholic School will be a preK-12
system consolidated on one campus with
graduating classes between 55 and 75 students,
providing on-campus educational offerings in the
tradition of the classical liberal arts imbued with
content from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. As
a Catholic school we will offer a virtue-based
educational experience that revolves around
intellectual, human, and religious formation so that
students are prepared not merely for college and
careers, but for a life well-lived no matter what
one’s vocation or occupation.

6. How Do We Get There From Here?
Better Educational
Product
Stronger
Enrollment
Increased
Financial
Health
Continuous
Institutional
Improvement
Maximal
Mission
Effectiveness
Short Term:
Long Term:
Enrollment Trends Under
New Leadership
Strategic Plan
Including Master
Campus Plan
Capital
Campaign &
School
Renovation
50 Years of
Enriched
Catholic Families
of Bishop Ryan
2017-2022 2021-2023 2023-2025 2025-2075

7. Step 1 in the Short Term: Improving
Our Educational Product
• What is needed ensure that
the necessary inputs are able
to achieve a better educational
product?
• Cash, Leadership, Motivation
• Goal: Cash infusion over the
next 4-6 years for the purpose
of attracting and retaining the
right personnel for our school,
improving the mission
appropriateness of our
programming, updating
curricula.
Better
Educational
Product
Programming
People
Policy

8. How Can We Afford To Maintain And Continue
Educational Gains After The 4-6 Years Are Over?
• A greater value proposition to parents is expected
to increase enrollment. The tuition that comes
from increased enrollment needs to pay for the
annual cash influx earmarked for additional
educational expenditures.
• The educational decisions need to be matched by
proportionate enrollment increases to remain
sustainable within the overall budget projections.

9. Enrollment: Trends and Numbers
374 372 354 323 324 301 308 285 258 240 230 221 216 196 182 187
642 618
573
518 497
483 459
440
394
374 375 419 424 415 417 426
Entire System vs. Bishop Ryan (Grades 6-12)
Bishop Ryan Entire System

10. Enrollment By Grade
0
50
100
150
200
250
Elementary/Middle/High School Levels
K-5th 6th-8th 9th-12th

11. Preschool to Kindergarten
Retention
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Area Chart Showing Connection Between Preschool, Kindergarten
Readiness, and Kindergarten Levels
PS KR K

17. Where Are We Going To Fit Additional Students?
• I currently estimate that we can add around 275
children in the middle and high school grades
without increasing fixed costs. The most
sustainable growth, however, must come from the
elementary school. We have recently split sections
of elementary grades. In order to accommodate the
two sections of elementary grades K-5, I propose
adding four modular classrooms in the current
administration parking lot.

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26. What Will Modular Classrooms
Accomplish?
• They provide the required room for us to grow
naturally in the elementary school, which is necessary
for long-term sustainable enrollment at the desired
graduated levels of 55-75 students.
• They provide an impermanent structure that can go
away once we are done with them, and the long-term
facilities master plan is accomplished.
• Above all they provide us the space that we need in the
short term to formulate a realistic long-term master
facilities plan without disrupting the current
educational quality and program of the school.

27. Cost of Modular Classrooms?
• The estimated cost for the modular classrooms
over the period of 8-10 years is $195,000.
• Initial purchase price: $70,000 and $90,000
• Transportation and setting: $7,500
• Construction to make classroom-ready: $35,000
• Annual operating expenses: $6,250

28. The Future of the Structure

29. • The long term requires the school to be brought up to code,
which means solving the lack of fire suppression/warning
issues among other things. Although the school can make it
another 60 years with continuous maintenance and system
upgrades, it would not be advised to do this a great deal
longer since the school is already maxed out for space and will
now require ever more expensive fixes due to greater wear and
tear. Presently, much energy is being lost due to antiquated
windows whose seals were broken decades ago. The roof
leaks. There is not fire suppression system in most of the
building. The margin of diminishing returns is starting to rear
its ugly head. Therefore, it is recommended at this time that
long term planning measures be taken in order to provide the
proper amount of flexibility and allowance for growth for now
and the future. – Michael Oakleaf, AIA, NCARB
Initial Assessment of the Structure

30. Preparing for another 50 years.
• We have a 60 year-old building that was never
designed to be a preK-12 system under one roof.
• Functional Obsolescence vs. Physical Obsolescence
• Space must meet educational needs in order to be
effective learning environment
• Law of diminishing returns – more expensive to fix as
time goes on.
• Tower Expansion or Demolition and Renovation

31. • Summary….
• Questions?