EarthCARE, An Environmental Education Partnership ™

Spring 2006 OCDSB EarthCARE Audit Stats

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Stats for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
  Elementary Secondary All Schools
# Schools completing audit (%) 105 (88.2%) 26 (86.7%) 131 (87.9%)
Total # students in schools (avg/school) 43,166 (411.1) 21,763 (837) 64,929 (495.6)
# Rooms audited (avg/school) 5035 (48.0) 2910 (111.9) 7945 (60.6)
# P/VP involved 87 18 105
# Teachers involved (avg/school) 279 (2.7) 142 (5.5) 421 (3.2)
# EC students on team (avg/school) 3152 (30.0) 353 (13.6) 3505 (26.8)
# Custodians involved (avg/school) 98 (0.9) 37 (1.4) 135 (1.0)
# Parents involved 37 3 40
# Community Sponsors 12 3 15
# Schools at Spring Training 104 26 130
# EC Meetings to April 2006 1168 (11.1) 211 (12.0) 1479 (11.3)
# Schools using EC Lessons/Resources (%) 41 (39.0%) 3 (11.5%) 44 (33.6%)
Average EC Activity Score (Max=10) 5.81 5.27 5.75
Student Involvement Avg. Score / 3 1.72 1.38 1.65
Staff Involvement Avg. Score / 3 1.17 1.23 1.18
Frequency of Involvement Avg. Score / 3 1.85 1.46 1.80
Visibility of EC in school Avg. Score / 3 1.96 1.69 1.90
Faucets counted (avg/school) Faucets leaking (avg/school) 5850 (55.7) 213 (2.0) 3103 (119.3) 104 (4.0) 8953 (68.3) 317 (2.4)
Toilets counted (avg/school) Toilets leaking (avg/school) 3434 (32.7) 43 (0.5) 1322 (50.8) 22 (0.8) 4756 (36.3) 65 (0.5)
Outside lights counted (avg/school) On unnecessarily (avg/school) 1565 (14.9) 98 (0.9) 552 (21.2) 8 (0.3) 2117 (16.2) 106 (0.8)
Computers counted On unnecessarily 9676 (92.1) 2420 (23.0) 6475 (249.0) 1350 (51.9) 16,151 (123.3) 3770 (28.8)
Inside Lights Counted On Unnecessarily 100,747 (959.5) 16,542 (157.5) 67,182 (2583.9) 9549 (367.3) 167,929 (1281.9) 26,091 (199.2)
Garbage in Recycling 590 (5.6) 403 (15.5) 993 (7.6)
Recycling in Garbage 1029 (9.0) 715 (27.5) 1744 (13.3)
No Recycling Bin where needed 380 (3.6) 465 (17.9) 845 (6.5)
Vents Blocked 617 (5.9) 199 (7.7) 816 (6.3)
Inappropriate Room Temperature 193 (1.8) 125 (4.8) 318 (2.4)

LOCO

The numbers of computers and lights on unnecessarily have been reported above.

In addition, we have calculated the percentage of computers and lights on unnecessarily, first by using the numbers above, second by averaging the percentages calculated for each school.
LOCO stats for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
  Elementary Secondary All Schools
Percentage of lights on unnecessarily in all schools 16.4% 14.2% 15.5%
Average percentage of inside lights on unnecessarily 16.0% 16.4% 16.1%
Percentage of computers on unnecessarily in all schools 25.0% 20.8% 23.3%
Average percentage of computers on unnecessarily 24.5% 21.5% 23.9%