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

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.