New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 27 - PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY COUNCIL › Part 31 - SPECIAL PURPOSE SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FACILITY ADEQUACY STANDARDS › Section 6.27.31.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
Unless otherwise specified, the following definitions
				  apply:
A. "art education program"
				includes visual and performing arts programs;
B. "combination school" means a school that
				contains the elementary, middle school/junior high school and high school or
				any combination thereof;
C.
				"council" means the public school capital outlay council;
D. "equipment" means a specified item not
				affixed to the real property of a special purpose school facility;
E. "expanded core curriculum" means a
				curriculum that recognizes experiences and concepts students without visual or
				auditory impairments learn casually and incidentally must be systematically and
				sequentially taught to students with visual and auditory impairments;
F. "exterior envelope" means the exterior
				walls, floor and roof of a building;
G. "fixture" means a specified item that is
				affixed to the real property of a special purpose school facility;
H. "general use classroom" means a classroom
				space that is or can be appropriately configured for instruction in at least
				the areas of language arts, mathematics and social studies;
I. "gross sf" means a measurement from
				exterior wall to exterior wall and calculated to obtain the gross square
				footage of a space;
J.
				"infrastructure" means the on-site physical support systems needed for the
				operation of the school, including internal roads, and utilities, and drainage
				systems, and building subsystems such as structure, mechanical, electrical,
				data, and telecommunications;
K.
				"intensive support space" means a space to accommodate programs serving
				students with severe or multiple handicaps and primarily in need of
				habilitation and treatment, while requiring a staff person for small groups of
				students within the class;
L.
				"interior finish" means an aesthetic or protective final coating or fabric
				applied to an exposed surface inside the building;
M. "interior surface" means any exposed area
				of the interior enclosure for an interior space, finished or
				unfinished;
N. "net sf" means a
				measurement from interior face of wall to interior face of wall and calculated
				to obtain the net square footage of a space;
O. "planned school program capacity" means
				the planned number of students to be accommodated in the entire facility when
				all phases of construction are fully completed; these shall include students in
				regular education classes in combination with special education students
				requiring special education classrooms in compliance with public education
				department requirements;
P.
				"resident" means a student who lives in residential housing while attending a
				special purpose school;
Q.
				"residential housing" means the space provided at a special purpose school for
				students to sleep, perform personal hygiene activities, study, socialize,
				engage in structured and unstructured recreational activities, prepare meals
				and dine, and to engage in other activities that a student attending a
				non-residential school might otherwise engage in outside of the traditional
				school day;
R. "space" means the
				net square footage located within the interior of a building;
S. "special purpose school facility" means a
				building or group of buildings and outdoor area that are administered together
				to comprise a special purpose school;
T. "special purpose school site or special
				purpose school campus" means one or more parcels of land where a special
				purpose school facility is located; more than one school facility may be
				located on a school site or school campus;
U. "special purpose schools" means the New
				Mexico school for the deaf (NMSD) and the New Mexico school for the blind and
				visually impaired (NMSBVI);
V.
				"specialty classroom" means a classroom space that is or can be appropriately
				configured for instruction in a specific subject such as science, physical
				education, special education or art;
W. "specialty program capacity" means the
				planned number of students to be accommodated in a specialty program area in
				compliance with public education department requirements;
X. "students" means the total enrollment of
				students on the current roll of a class or special purpose school on a
				specified day; and
Y. "teacherage"
				means a residence that houses a teacher or administrator on site.