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School Board of Brevard County
FY 2017-2018 Student Accommodation Plan _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Balancing Enrollment to Capacity The Requirement to Balance Enrollment to Capacity
The Growth Management Legislation enacted in 2005 required all local governments to implement School Concurrency by 2008. Based on this legislation and previous agreements, Brevard School Board and 15 local governments in Brevard County entered into the Interlocal Agreement for Public School Facility Planning and School Concurrency in June 2008. School Concurrency states that school capacity must be available in order for new residential development to be approved. During the 2011 legislative session, the growth management statutes were revised to require relocatable classroom capacity when determining school concurrency.
The Interlocal Agreement for Public School Facility Planning and School Concurrency between the School Board and 15 local governments was updated in 2014 to reflect changes in state legislation and to streamline the school concurrency process. The communities in Brevard continue to implement the school concurrency process to ensure adequate school facilities for the youth in Brevard County.
One of the provisions of the Interlocal Agreement is to ensure that schools have sufficient capacity to support projected student growth. The current agreement establishes a 100% Level of Service (LOS) for school concurrency using both permanent and relocatable capacity. In order to meet that standard, the School Board has completed the activities listed in the following paragraphs.
For the 2012-13 school year, attendance boundaries were changed at five high schools, one junior/senior high school, six middle schools and eight elementary schools to address projected over-capacity situations at one high school, one junior/senior high school, three middle schools and three elementary schools. In addition, one elementary school was closed and the attendance boundaries at seven elementary schools were changed to address projected under-utilization at those schools. Students were accommodated with a net increase of 13 relocatable classrooms.
For the 2013-14 school year, two elementary schools and one middle school were closed. The middle school, Clearlake, was integrated with the nearby high school Cocoa High to create a new Junior/Senior High School. To make this change, the attendance boundaries at both Cocoa and Rockledge High Schools, and at McNair Middle School had to be adjusted so that the middle and high school boundaries would be coincident. The boundaries of eight elementary schools were also changed to accommodate the students affected by the two closed elementary schools. Students were accommodated with a net decrease of 35 relocatable classrooms.
For the 2014-15 school year, no attendance boundaries were changed. A net increase of 10 relocatable classroom units were provided to accommodate the students.
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Facilities Services / DGL Board Approved March 28, 2017