Five-Year Plan & Capital Budget School Concurrency...providing a seat for every child when needed.
In June 2005, State Senate Bill 360 (SB360) was approved. It is the new Growth Management Legislation prepared to address the rapid population growth within the State of Florida. It requires all counties within the state to adopt a School Concurrency program by December 2008. The School Board, the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County, and 26 participating municipalities within Palm Beach County have all approved the implementation of public school concurrency and was officially implemented on June 27, 2002 making Palm Beach the first County in Florida to officially adopt concurrency. Technical Advisory Group (TAG), which is an oversight committee, was established to monitor and evaluate the concurrency program. The School Concurrency Interlocal Agreement (ILA) established twenty-one (21) Concurrency Service Areas (CSAs), as well as a specified Level of Service (LOS) for each of these service areas. Click here to view school enrollment, capacity, and utilization tables (Concurrency Service Areas CSAs) To learn more about Concurrency, please visit the Intergovernmental page on the Planning Department web site.
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Program Capacity... "The growing need for instructional space"
When compared to other Florida school districts, Palm Beach County is home to a large percentage of students that are enrolled in Exceptional Student Education (ESE), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) programs. Based on the February 2007 student enrollment figures, 33% of the student population (52,798 students) was enrolled in one of these three programs. Generally, the greater the number of students enrolled in these types of special programs, the greater the need for additional instructional space.
Additionally, given the ongoing expansion of School Choice Programs, Adult/Community Education Programs (ACE), and other creative ways to contextualize the instructional curriculum will always require more space to meet the needs of our existing and future student populations. Finally, Class Size Reduction (CSR - Florida Constitutional Amendment Article IX, Section 1) will shift from a school average in FY08 to increasingly more stringent classroom-by-classroom figures beginning August 2008 to further challenge our ability to provide adequate instructional spaces.
To learn more about the program capacity needs of Palm Beach County's schools, click on this link to see "program percentage" levels at each individual school. |
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