The one thing about recording studios and the like is these days, you don’t necessarily need the school’s recording equipment, if they have places where the kids can play (rehearsal rooms for example), you can do a lot of pretty high quality recording using tools on a computer and some decent microphones. If they are planning to do a professional level recording, one potentially they may want to use as a demo for record companies or to sell, then likely they would want to rent a professional studio, I can’t speak for every school out there, but unless the school has a recording engineering curricula a lot of the recording capability at music schools is not all that awesome (that I have seen).