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School Concurrency Overview
The school concurrency program impacts all schools in Palm Beach County and continually monitors new residential developments as they occur. School concurrency provides long-range capacity planning to determine level-of-service (LOS) for all students in Palm Beach County schools.
History
In 1998, the Florida Legislature established specific minimum requirements for optional implementation of public school concurrency.
On June 27, 2002, the School Board of Palm Beach County, the Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County, and 27 participating municipalities within Palm Beach County have all officially approved the implementation of public school concurrency. It made Palm Beach the first county in Florida to officially adopt school concurrency.
The School Board of Palm Beach County, the Board of County Commissioners and all the required municipalities have agreed to coordinate the planning of residential developments concurrent with school constructions, which should provide schools at an adopted level of service of 110% at the time of residential development impact. The goal is to have sufficient capacity and classroom space at the adopted level of service for all the elementary, middle and high schools.
In June, 2005, State Senate Bill 360 (SB 360) was approved. It required all counties within the State to adopt a school concurrency program by December 2008. The new legislation provided an exemption for local governments such as Palm Beach County, which had previously adopted school concurrency program, until the time of the next Evaluation and Appraisal Report in 2011. Since the Inter-Local Agreement in 2001 with first amendment in 2003 already addressed many of the requirements established in the 2005 legislation, it was expected that only minor revisions to our program would be required.
Just as the District was embarking on changes to our existing Interlocal Agreement to meet the 2005 legislation, school concurrency again became optional in Florida (HB 7207). Given this new legislation, the Palm Beach County School District will be discussing the future of school concurrency with its partnering Cities and the County, including whether school concurrency should continue to be implemented “as is” in Palm Beach County. The School District, the County and Local Governments will continue to implement an Interlocal Agreement encouraging coordinated planning among the agencies to benefit all students of Palm Beach County.
Concurrency Service Area (CSA)
Geographic areas known as Concurrency Service Areas (CSAs) identify where any given residential development is located. The program is designed so that schools in each CSA (or adjacent CSAs) serve students from specific developments at an adopted level of service.
Oversight Committee
Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is an oversight committee which was established to monitor and evaluate the school concurrency program.
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