Number of computer suites

[KWestos]

We are a school of around 670 pupils and have 5 ICT suites and 130 laptops. A computer in every room for a teacher AND a teacher laptop (which stays at home). Now I think this is way over the top. I've been talking to a Manager from a very good school and they only have 2 ICT suites and a30 laptops and all the teachers use their laptop in their classrooms and they have 1200 kids.

 

What I'm after is what you guys have at your school. I'm trying to scale down the number of suites as by clever timetabling we could remove one if not two ICT suites and reduce the number of laptops too.

 

Our school thinks more is better!!!!!

[plexer]

We have 720 kids on role.

 

1 x 30 pc suite

1 x 33 pc suite

1 x 40 pc suite

1 x 15 pc suite

1 x 10 pc suite

 

10 pc's in the library and smaller clusters around.

 

Every member of teaching staff has a laptop that has to be in school for e-registration, 100'ish laptops for students use in trolleys.

 

Ben

[Mr.Ben]

160 Students on role

 

1 x 10 Laptop Trolley

2 x 10 Netbook Trolley

6 Laptops in DT

40 x Staff Laptops

2 PC's in each Secondary Room (Total 40 machines)

1 PC is each Primary room

2 PC's in the Staff Workroom

9 Admin PC's

[laserblazer]

500 odd kids

 

2 x suites of 31

3 x suites of 6

2 x 3 in Learning Resouce

50 odd laptops. Some teachers use theirs in the classroom, some don't.

[Hightower]

~650 on roll

 

1 x 34 ICT1

2 x 30 ICT3/ICT5

1 x 26 ICT2

1 x 20 ICT4

1 x 18 Graphics

1 x 16 Music

1 x 10 Textiles

1 x 6 Food

1 x 16 Library

 

All those machines only count the student use machines in computer rooms, not the teaching machines too.

 

Just edited as forgot about the 16 in music.

Edited October 5, 2010 by Hightower
Forgot about a suite of computers, doh!

[Fatmas]

Secondary school with 1100 kids:

 

6 x Suites of 26 (25+ teacher) machines (All machines under 2 years old).

1 x Suite of 30 (29 + teacher) machines (A few years old.)

DT room with 12 machines (a few years old)

A "Conference room" with about 6 machines.

 

Every teaching room has a machine.

 

2 laptop trolleys (16 in each). <- These are a few years old and starting to break.

 

We are trying to tone down laptop trolley use as we think we have enough ICT suites that they shouldn't be needed very often.

[Soulfish]

Secondary school with around 1050 on roll:

 

Every teacher has a laptop

PC in every room for registration/smartboard

1 x 34 PC Suite

3 x 30 PC Suites

1 x 28 PC Subject Cluster

6 x 15 PC Subject Clusters

1 x 16 Netbook Laptop trolley

 

Many other PCs in classrooms etc.

[teky]

Secoundry school with 1000 on roll (was 1200):

 

Every teacher has a laptop

PC in every room for registration and smartboard

1 x 24 PC Suite

3 x 30 PC Suites

1 x 33 PC Suite

1 x 88 PC suite (Used to be a diner)

That is the actual ICT Suites

 

Room of 28 PC's, another with 10 and another with 6 in the D+T dept

2 rooms of 15 PC's in Maths

Room of 25 PC's and 25 fizzbooks for Construction

Room of 20 PC's and 80 laptops (30 laptops, 2 sets of 25 netbooks) for Science

LRC have 6 PC's

Art have 13 PC's split into 3 rooms

And 30 laptops in 6th form

 

all managed by 4 techs

Edited October 4, 2010 by teky

[glennda]

We have 1500 students 11 ICT suites of 30 machines two sets of department laptops (being slowly removed!) and staff laptops are slowly being removed (apart from pe) plus a 4 x rooms with 15 machines in. (we are a technology college)

[bossman]

700 students on role:

 

350 networked computers whole school:

 

100 laptops for teachers and student use, all standalone (students profile locked down for safeguarding).

 

All rooms have a computer attached to IWB for both teacher and student use:

 

10 Ict suites of various sizes to accommodate different class sizes:

 

All ICT suites are bookable from the timetable:

 

2.5 techs (this includes both myself and webman, Tallan is the 0.5 technician as he only comes in for half a day).

[2097]

around 600 students

 

4 suites of 30 machines

 

around 70- 80 laptops

 

Near enough every room has a IWB

 

about 7 rooms with 6-8 machines in each

 

I am the only tech/manager

[nicholab]

Get rid of the teacher desktops or laptops as that is doubling up. It sounds like you are going to have to build out your budget to include every think and show that reducing computer suits would enable the better use of ICT in remaining areas. I would build a cost model spread sheet put some life time stuff 3-4 years for PC and 4-5 for smartboards setup and 5-6 for network kit. If they want to move to cloud services they need to budget about £25k/yrs for an internet connection. Collect some base line data form your switch if you can that works wonders when you show graphs of why it not working.

 

1000 machines.

10 servers

Cisco 3750 and 2960-s switches.

Edited October 4, 2010 by nicholab

[Tricky_Dicky]

This is the most depressing thread I've ever read. With knocking on 800 kids we have 1 suite of 30 machines and 4 working trolleys of 30 laptops. We just don't have any more room for a new IT suite and we are having to take in more children this year due to the population density in the area.

Any ideas how to improve the ratio?

Rich

[alunmjones]

we have about 850 kids on rol

 

we have 3 IT Room's used for the IT lessons 29, 30 and 33 pc's

1 IT room for all to use 22 pc's

maths have 30 laptops

science have 30 laptops

English have 30 laptops + 6 pc's

Welsh have 6 PC's

Business/Inclusion room have 10 laptops another 9 beeing added soon

DT1 has 20 PC'S very old, need to be changed

DT3 has 25 new pc's

Cookery has 12 machines between two classes

Art has 7 machines

library has 6 machines + librarian machine

the support department has 13 machines and two that came up with kids from primary

music had 8 newish ones and 8 very old one + 1 new mac

 

there are about 55-60 teachers laptops connected to IWB and projectors

 

about 400 machines give or take a few.

[cvl4]

3 ICT suites each with 36 PCs

Library suite 32 PCs

1 Suite with 24 Pcs

10 PCs + 10 laptops in Learning Support Classroom

Teacher PC in every classroom

730 ish students - SLT and myself find this is just about adequate - yes there are times when the rooms are empty but because of the way the timetable works at other times you will get at least 3 teachers fighting over 1 room.

Teachers do have laptops at home - they no longer bring them into school and we are not replacing these as they die, can't afford to for starters!

[maniac]

I'll run through dept by dept what my school has.

 

Enterprise:

1 x room of 46 PC's

1 x Room of 8 PCs

1 x Room of 16 PCs

1 x cabinet of 30 laptops

 

LRC

10 x Desktop PCs

 

Food tech

1 x cabinet of 30 Laptops

 

M.F.L

1 x cabinet of 30 Laptops

 

Humanities

1 x cabinets of 30 Laptops

1 x cabinet of 30 Netbooks

 

Maths

4 x rooms with 16 Desktops in

1 x cabinet of 30 Laptops

 

English

3 x cabinets of 30 Laptops

 

Science

2 x labs with 15 Desktops

2 x cabinets of 30 Laptops

 

Art

1 x room of 10 Apple macs

1 x cabinet of 30 Laptops

 

Performing Arts

1 x cabinet of 30 Netbooks

1 x room with 12 Macs in

 

Student Support

12 x Desktops

 

Cafe Area

6 x Desktops

 

70x teacher laptops

20 x Staff desktops

 

Plus other odd ones around the school.

 

Mike.

[maark]

This is the most depressing thread I've ever read. With knocking on 800 kids we have 1 suite of 30 machines and 4 working trolleys of 30 laptops. We just don't have any more room for a new IT suite and we are having to take in more children this year due to the population density in the area.

Any ideas how to improve the ratio?

Rich

You are way below recommended ratio of student to computers though i can't remember exact ratio off the top of my head. How about dual purpose classrooms with flip down lids or similar? There are a lot of systems out there. Can be expensive initially but cheaper in the long run compared to laptops - must be some money about with that many kids on roll.

[Tricky_Dicky]

Our big problem is where to physically put the machines. Being as we are a primary it's not like we have seperate rooms for things like this and we seem to have grown very fast to which I'm fighting a loosing battle to keep up with machines and also keep them under control.

I've seen thos flip up one and they look awesome but it would mean fixing a classroom to a specific layout which probably wouldn't work. I don't really fancy getting loads of new laptops as they are becoming harder and harder to maintain on my own.

Rich

[john]

470 students

183 PCs in IT Rooms / clusters of varying sizes

A few staff laptops (All stand-alone now as they are XP and we don't support XP on the Network)

Every classroom has 1 PC for Projector and Registration needs (so that adds about another 45 to the list)

A small group of 6th Form Students will have a Laptop for Student offering.

[clareq]

2000 students on roll

Most teaching staff have laptops, and every classroom has an IWB and controlling PC (101 installations)

As a split site school we have to double up on a lot of resources, but ICT alone have 5x30 station suites, PE have 4x15 station suites, then there is Media (2 suites, one 30ximacs, one 15xPC), technology (2 suites), Libraries (2), Learning Support Units (2), and I'm sure there are more I've forgotten.

We have about 10 curriculum laptop trolleys too...

[witch]

600 on roll

2 IT suites of 33 machines

1 mini suite of 3

5 laptops for SEN children

Several networked machines dotted around school

IWB in every classroom and one or two labs etc

Every teacher has a laptop

One lapsafe with 18 machines but not used due to rubbish wireless network

[accura2000]

Primary School with a little over 400 on roll.

 

No ICT suites.

 

Nursery class has 4 machines

Each Reception class has 5 machines

Each Yr 1 class has 5 machines (SMT think play learning is better for Yr1????)

Each Yr 2 class has 5 machines plus 5 laptops each

Year 3 has a rolling bank of 30 laptops in trolley

Year 4, 5 and 6 all pupils have their own laptops provided by the school FOC.

[mrbios]

1170 pupils

 

6 dedicated IT suites - of which 4 are for fixed teachers with occasional booking possibilities, the other 2 can be booked out as and when required by any teacher

4 x classrooms with 10 or more PCs in their room (2 geography rooms with 15 PCs each - 2 x languages rooms, one with 15 PCs the other with 10)

13 PCs in the library

Terminals in each science lab and maths room - 5 per maths room and 2 per lab

9 PCs in a PE classroom

5 Learning support rooms containing a minimum of 6 PCs per room (one has 12, one has 8)

EDIT: and a media room with 8 PCs

 

Each IT suite contains 31 student machins and a teacher PC, every classroom has a teacher PC - about 90% have a projector and interactive whiteboard (some have only a projector)

 

All staff have laptops which come and go

 

Managing it all is pretty easy, my biggest grumbles are: laptops - when people try to get us to support something we didn't purchase (EG 3G dongles to access the internet) and sound...people really need to learn it's the green hole!

[sidewinder]

6x 32

4x 16

2x 12

1x 30

1x 18

1x 32 macs

1x 12 macs

 

And every department pretty much has at least 16 laptops (totalling about 400). Science, in total have 64 laptops, and English arnt far behind.

 

I wish we had more centralised IT suites and far less laptops. But every department wants their own thing, even if they're unused for half of the week. So wasteful

Edited October 5, 2010 by sidewinder

[fafster]

We have about 500 kids on roll.

 

4 ict suites, average 30 machines each.

3 technology rooms with ICT, average 22 machines each.

5 smaller ICT resource rooms, average 8 machines each.

40 classrooms with anything from one to five machines.

20 admin computers.

 

Just me to take care of it all.