School mapping

Rachel Anne D. Belangel

Definition
School mapping is a set of techniques
and procedures used to estimate future
education requirements at local level and
work out what needs to be done to meet
them. In that sense, school mapping is a
micro-planning exercise, with the specificity
that it seeks a better match between the
supply of, and demand for, education.

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Objective
School mapping aims to align the supply
and demand for education by considering the
existing situation alongside the resources
available and the estimate of future needs.
These are determined from strategic options in
education policies, demographic changes and
the internal dynamics of the education system
(flow rate variations). Yet this exercise is
fraught with technical difficulties. It
presupposes sound methodological control of
school mapping and implies constant reliance
on micro-planning tools throughout the process.

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 SCHOOL MAPPING PROCESS
1. Specific Areas for Expansion
(a)Rationalization of existing facilities by:
• locating existing schools and determining its vulnerability to
various geological and hydro meteorological hazards;
• new schools must be located outside areas already identified to be
within hazard zones;
• shifting, closure, or amalgamation/ integration of institutions;
• optimum utilization of buildings, equipment, furniture, etc.
(b) provision of new or additional facilities by:
• opening of new schools or upgrading existing ones;
• providing additional teaching and non-teaching staff; and
• providing new or additional buildings, furniture and equipment in
institutions, etc. Before starting the exercise of school mapping, it is
essential that the norms and standards for provision and maintenance of
educational services are clearly laid down by the higher authorities.

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 SCHOOL MAPPING PROCESS

2. Initial Steps in School Mapping

(a) Diagnosis of the Existing Situation:
• Environmental/geographic factors
• Demographic factors
• Economic factors
• Educational factors
• Political factors
• Manpower factors

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(b) Projection of future requirements
• Estimating the number of children to
be enrolled; and
• Determining the capacity of existing
schools and defining their catchment areas.

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(c) Drawing up of perspective school map. The
school map produced shall not be regarded as
final unless it has been considered and
discussed by central administrators, local
authorities, teachers, parents, etc.
Education Data
(1) Annual Statistical Report
(2) Geographical distribution of schools
(3) Site and catchment area conditions

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(d) Size of the existing school plant for
individual schools
(1) Exact location or verbal description of
location
(2) Nature of catchment area (relief/land
elevation, barriers to movement, predominant
economic activity, area of immigration or
population decline)
(3) number of student spaces available in
each year, indication of the state of buildings

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 BASIC DATA NEEDED FOR
SCHOOL MAPPING

1. Population Data (analysis of the census)

2. Other Planning Data
(a) general rural and urban
development policies
(b) social facilities to encourage
nucleation of population at the central
points.

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EXPECTED RESULTS OF SCHOOL MAPPING

(1) School buildings requiring repairs

(2) Schools requiring additional classrooms
(3) Opening of New Schools
(4) Phasing out of existing schools
(5) Resource allocation
(6) Environmental Mapping

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 SPECIFIC OUTPUTS OF SCHOOL
MAPPING

a. Prioritization of schools based on defined

set of criteria
b. Identifying the location of new schools
based on a defined radial distance from
existing schools or barangays
c. Grouping of entries based on a defined
set of attributes.

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THE SCHOOL MAPPING EXERCISE
(SME) OF DepEd
MODE OF ACQUISITION OF SCHOOL SITES
A school site may be acquired through any of
the following methods:
1.Purchase
2.Donation
3.Contract of Usufruct
4. Expropriation
5.Barter
6. Presidential Proclamation
7. Gratuitous Conveyance

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 References
Caillods, Francoise, Jocelyne Casselli, Ta Ngoc Châu, and Guy Porte. (1983).
School mapping and micro-planning in education. Training materials in
educational planning, administration and facilities. Paris: UNESCO-
IIEP.
DepEd. (2015). DepEd order 44 s. 2015. SIP DepEd. Retrieved from:
http://www.deped.gov.ph/sip
DepEd.(n.d.). Mapcentral. Retrieved from: http://ww.mapcentral.ph
Magboo, J. (n.d). School mapping. Retrieved from:
https://www.slideshare.net/mharemagboo/educationalfacilities-and-
mapping
Sylla, Khadim, and Barbara Tournier.(2013). The benefits of school mapping.
IIEP newsletter 31, no 1.

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