How does class size, concurrency level of service, and the State Plant Survey impact school boundary planning?
This year’s boundary process will be significantly impacted by state mandated school-wide average class size reduction, school concurrency, and the new State Educational Plant Survey. This year the State Plant Survey process looked at how much total capacity existed in the District against State projected enrollment. The State found that there were approximately 34,000 seats available throughout the District to meet current and future enrollment needs. As a result, the State will not fund any new capacity additions that were not already under Total Project Management (TPM) contract. For school boundaries it means schools must meet period-by-period class size reduction and level of service (LOS) with space available throughout the District. In some cases, available space may not be adjacent to the school needing immediate relief which could result in a domino of school boundary changes. School Concurrency compounds space utilization. School concurrency was added into state law in 2005 r
