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facilities. Your input will inform our reporting and help us identify problems affecting students across the state.Concerns about the health and safety of Pennsylvania school facilities aren’t new, and many public schools have struggled to upgrade aging buildings due to a lack of state funding. Over the past two years, the coronavirus pandemic heightened existing concerns about issues like air quality and ventilation.
About 82% of the 1,194 buildings covered in the survey were constructed before 1990, just one year after aThe survey also found that about 24% of those buildings were rated by school leaders to be in poor or fair condition. Districts flagged their mechanical and plumbing systems as some of the biggest problems.
The oldest school included in the sample was constructed in 1908. On average, schools included in the survey were constructed in 1964.
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