{"id":8576,"date":"2025-01-29T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/773983707542536192-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:24:49","slug":"773983707542536192-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/773983707542536192-2\/","title":{"rendered":"773983707542536192"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/articles\/school-building-and-siting#\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/articles\/school-building-and-siting#\",\"title\":\"School Building and Siting\",\"description\":\"The ideal envisioned by advocates of the Smart Growth and new urbanism movements of the \u201870s and \u201880s--and embraced by a generation of plann\",\"site_name\":\"nar.realtor\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"4e0193787da0c89d682171f970f3fc4d:2e90644c4bb369e0-b1\",\"type\":\"image\/webp\",\"width\":315,\"height\":315}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/articles\/school-building-and-siting#\" target=\"_blank\">School Building and Siting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing is clear: As long as decisions about building versus renovating, about school size and school siting, are made simply on the basis of narrowly conceived\u2014and, in some cases, misguided\u2014cost formulas, school districts will continue to build big. For decades, these decisions were justified in part by the belief that larger schools resulted in better overall performance and that bigger schools produced economies of scale that translate into greater opportunities for students\u2014better facilities, a broader curriculum, and more extracurricular activities. But a growing body of research suggests that small, community-centered schools outperform so-called megaschools. For example, studies show that smaller schools have lower drop-out rates and that students at larger schools are actually less likely to participate in extracurricular activities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School Building and Siting \u201cOne thing is clear: As long &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[580,2350,3880,1637,630,7622,11224,1375,1364,1368,218],"class_list":["post-8576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-architecture","tag-building","tag-community","tag-land","tag-law","tag-real-estate","tag-residential","tag-school","tag-student","tag-teacher","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>773983707542536192 - Do Not Destroy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/773983707542536192-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"773983707542536192 - 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