A Look at Education Buildings
Where are they located?
Are they on multibuilding complexes?
How do they use energy and how much does it cost?
Where are they located?
The West has the highest percent of education buildings, but the education buildings there are smaller, on average, than those buildings in the rest of the country. This may be attributed to higher increases in enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools in the West than in the rest of the country, leading to the necessity for mobile classrooms—small buildings which would be considered as separate education buildings in the CBECS. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) shows that every state in the West had an increase in enrollment between 1990 and 1995, with over half of those states experiencing an enrollment increase of more than 10 percent. (See figure on the NCES site: Percentage change in public elementary and secondary enrollment by state.)
The largest education buildings are found in the New England Census division (part of the Northeast region) and the smallest in the Pacific Census division (part of the West region).
Table 2: Number, size, and age of education buildings by Census region and division
Continue: How old are they?
Go to "Where are they located?" for other building types:
- Office
- Education
- Health Care
- Retail and Service
- Food Service
Specific questions may be directed to:
Joelle Davis Michaels
joelle.michaels@eia.doe.gov
CBECS Manager
URL: http://www.eia.gov/emeu/consumptionbriefs/cbecs/pbawebsite/education/educ_wherelocated.htm
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date: August 2, 2000
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last modified: January 3, 2001