Every school day, nearly 50 million students and 6 million adults are in 100,000 public schools, encompassing an estimated 8.3 billion square feet of buildings on nearly 2 million acres of land.
FORMAT-Pro (Facilities Operations Resource Management Analysis Tool) is an integrated ecosystem of applications that helps organizations collect, organize, validate, manage, and analyze PK-12 public school facilities information.
Every school day, nearly 50 million students and 6 million adults are in 100,000 public schools, encompassing an estimated 8.3 billion square feet of buildings on nearly 2 million acres of land.
High-quality facilities help improve student achievement, reduce truancy and suspensions, improve staff satisfaction and retention, and support property values. They are integral to educational equity and community resilience.
In fiscal year 2024, state and local governments invested more capital in PK-12 public school facilities than in any other infrastructure sector outside of highways. U.S. communities spent $150 billion on PK-12 public school facilities.
Facilities standards and management are becoming more complex. Public school infrastructure costs have risen dramatically over the decades. Communities need more value from current spending and must identify new revenue sources.
Despite the importance of this infrastructure and the enormous investment made by U.S. taxpayers, there is no comprehensive and comparable information about public school buildings. States and districts often spend scarce resources building separate information systems.
Educational leaders and communities have the data and information tools they need to manage healthy, safe, and educationally appropriate public school buildings and grounds that are also environmentally sound, energy efficient, resilient, and community assets.
Establish a unified typology and language for school buildings and grounds to ensure data is portable and analyzable nationwide.
Provide tools to streamline data organization, cleaning, alignment, analysis, and reporting.
Create a national inventory of public school facilities to make their data public and actionable for planning and oversight.
The data warehouse provides a centralized and structured foundation for educational facilities analysis. It brings together long-term district, school, building, condition, fiscal, enrollment, staffing, and demographic information.
Key features
The Cloud API provides controlled REST access to the data warehouse and serves as the integration layer between the web portal, Data Coordinator, reporting services, and other approved applications.
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The secure web portal gives authorized users browser-based access to profiles, reports, analytical tools, data definitions, reference information, and administrative workflows.
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The Query Builder allows authorized users to construct targeted analyses across datasets without writing SQL or requiring direct access to the underlying database.
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The Data Coordinator is a desktop application that helps users import, prepare, standardize, validate, and exchange disparate datasets, and other organizational data sources.
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The AI Search feature provides a guided natural-language interface for exploring longitudinal school facilities information, locating relevant data, understanding definitions, and developing analytical queries.
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Built on a modular, loosely coupled architecture, each application operates independently while securely exchanging information through standardized services. This provides exceptional flexibility, scalability, and resilience, streamlining the flow from raw data collection to actionable intelligence.
