The SDPL is prepared to offer comprehensive guidance in school design and planning for public and private schools. Teams composed of University of Georgia faculty, adjunct planners and architects, and graduate assistants are available to study immediate and long-range educational needs of the school district. Comprehensive strategic planning and needs assessment activities are led by SDPL staff for designing and constructing effective schools. These studies may include specific jobs such as student population projections, site selection, curriculum development, the design of schools to match the curriculum needs, an assessment of school finance plus strategies to finance school construction.
Extensive use is made of population maturation and saturation data and community planning programs.
Teachers, students, and parents are included in the development of school design. Community involvement is encouraged in the strategic planning of the school's learning environments. Plans are developed, spaces for programs are designed, and comprehensive documents, with school and community input, are developed to fit the special needs of the students and the community. SDPL uses the designs and plans to communicate precise information to the architects and construction managers involved in the building of indoor and outdoor learning environments. SDPL provides unbiased data analysis.