The Malaysian students presented all of their site analysis today (after visiting it this past weekend) which was WONderful because they answered our questions and did some impressive investigative work. It's too bad we can't post the powerpoint directly because it was good and super dense.
They looked into the exact process we have to go through in order to get the project built, as well as some cost guidelines.
More design constraints came to light (ahh!) as the school expressed the desire to keep the wet fields in front of the site; as it turns out these areas are used to cultivate rice which is then sold and the profit used for facility maintenance.

(click to see the diagrams enlarged)
The UM students answered all of our lingering questions and confirmed some of the suspicions we had. There is a general consensus that we will be designing the school for 2000 children in kindergarten to sixth grade with a split day -- so 1000 students in the morning from 7:30-11 and 1000 students in the afternoon from 1:30-5.