Abstract
This paper describes a model to be used in the evaluation of educational policy relative to the location and concentration of school plants within an urban environment. The model attempts to consider these decisions in terms of the broad factors that determine the effectiveness of these decisions, and is therefore highly aggregate. Several submodels are described, the urban submodel, the school submodel, the effectiveness submodel and the cost submodel. The urban submodel is described by area units which are defined by their location and their socioeconomic characteristics. The school submodel is described by functional classifications of school plant space requirements and personnel staffing ratios. The effectiveness submodel is described by measures of achievement and the racial and socioeconomic composition of the school attendance area. The cost submodel is described by initial capital and operating cost estimates of the school system. The operational measures that are the output of the above two submodels are used as a quantitative basis for the selection among alternate policies. No attempt is made to maximize these decisions relative to a defined utility function.
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