FOR years educators have been advocating that the school plant be designed to provide not only for the educational needs, but also for many, if not all, the social, civic, recreational, and cultural needs of the entire community. It is felt that if this can be done, in many instances inefficient utilization of public buildings 'and duplication of costly building materials can be avoided. Furthermore, it seems certain that as the school and community draw closer together, interest in and support of the regular school program by the community increase accordingly. Notwithstanding this widespread interest in planning the school building for community activities, few writers in the field of school-plant planning have come to close grips with the problem. That is, there is very little literature on how to plan the school building for community use. The most ambitious attempt to define and describe the community school plant was undertaken by Engelhardt and Engelhardt. (3) Their volume deals primarily with large school districts and is centered around adult activities. Many illustrations of rooms and other plant areas planned for various types of community activities are given, and examples of communities which have organized programs of community interest which are housed in the school building are discussed. This book is helpful to large, fairly wealthy districts, but has only narrow implications for relatively poor rural communities where the school building may be the only public building in the community. The New York State Department of Education (18) was concerned primarily with rural school districts and pointed out that few if any additional facilities over and above those commonly found in a wellplanned school building are needed to take care of the usual community activities. Many rooms can be used dually by both school and community. Five factors must be given careful consideration: (a) location in the building of facilities used by the community, (b) distribution of heat for unit and room control, (c) provision for adequate storage space for equipment, (d) special appointments and service features, and (e) provision for toilet facilities.