The Effect of Different Planning Criteria for The Spatial Distribution of Educational Facilities "General Education In Al-Safa Sub-Municipality in Jeddah City – A Case Study"

The study aims to reveal the impact of different planning Criteria for spatial distribution of educational services based the distance and population Criteria approved by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, and capacity data of school buildings, by adopting a digital spatial analytical methodology through gis and its modern technologies. An analytical tool has been developed to test the Criteria. the study relied the descriptive analytical approach and the case study approach. The study dealt with educational services represented in girls’ middle Schools within general education at Al-Safa sub-municipality in the city of Jeddah, which number 10 schools. The study went through a series of stages, starting with collecting and preparing data then building geodatabase, then performing the necessary calculations on the demographic data, entering data, and finally building the analytical tool within the ArcPro program. The study found a Variation population coverage within the service scopes, the capacity achieved population coverage to 48% of the total population in the study area with average 602m. It is consistent with planning Criteria for the population number targeted by the service, and the service scopes according the capacity were more comprehensive than As the population coverage of the service areas according the distance criterion achieved high population coverage compared the population criterion, and the population criterion achieved low population coverage compared the current reality, the study recommended the necessity of reconsidering the planning Criteria for educational services and reformulating them to become more compatible with specific local situation of each city.