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School Board of Brevard County
FY 2017-2018 Student Accommodation Plan _______________________________________________________________________________________________
undertake in the next five (5) years, with long range projections for ten (10) years and twenty (20) years. All facility improvements contained in the Five Year Work Plan must be included in the currently-approved EPS in order to finance the improvement with state funds. Again, improvements funded with locally generated revenue (impact fees, sales tax, local bonds) do not have to be contained in the approved EPS.
C. Student Accommodation Plan
The Student Accommodation Plan (SAP) provides detailed data about the school capacities, actual enrollment, and projected enrollment for five (5) years. The information compiled in the preparation of this document comes from several different sources. Facilities Services, in partnership with Financial Services, provides the data related to projected student enrollment for the School District. Facilities Services provides the permanent and relocatable school capacities from the Florida Inventory of School Houses (FISH) Database. School Principals and Assistant Superintendents estimate their need for space to accommodate students based on the programs and membership projections for the following year. After the Senior Staff evaluates the information, recommendations are provided to the Superintendent and to the School Board for approval.
D. Student Membership Projections
Student membership projections are an essential component of facilities planning. The Membership Projection Process begins in October of each year to develop student projections for the following school year.
Financial Services develops student membership projections for the next school year based on trend analyses of cohort survival data and feeder chains. These preliminary projections are modified based on input from the School Principals and Assistant Superintendents, then finalized at an Enrollment Projection Management Conference. The final projections are submitted to the FDOE for budgeting purposes.
Facilities Services uses geospatial analysis of the local government development data, birth rate data, mobility rates and matriculation rates to calculate student membership projections for the next ten (10) years. Further analysis takes into account any potential redistricting or grandfathered students from previous redistricting.
A five year student enrollment projection is then created by using the Financial Services projections for the next school year, then indexing the Facilities Services projections for the following four years. This unified set of projections is used for all School District purposes (including FDOE reporting and school concurrency).
These projections may be modified in the spring to reflect any changes due to redistricting, but the total number of students forecast will remain the same since that figure was provided to the FDOE in December to determine the District’s budget for the next fiscal year.
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Facilities Services / DGL Board Approved March 28, 2017