Overview
- The district reports a $94.7 million shortfall tied to years of enrollment declines, prompting immediate austerity measures.
- Leaders have implemented a hiring freeze, halted most travel, curbed overtime, and expect to eliminate about 1,000 positions before next school year.
- Schools signaled for closure or consolidation include Sunshine, Panther Run, and Palm Cove elementaries, Plantation and Bair middle schools, North Fork Elementary, and Seagull Alternative High.
- The plan would reconfigure Plantation High into a 6–12 campus and reassign affected students to nearby schools, with specific receiving schools identified in several cases.
- Glades Middle may be converted to a K–8 and Walter C. Young Middle is likely to operate for two more years, while officials also weigh leasing or selling surplus properties valued at about $230 million with potential multi‑million‑dollar annual lease revenue.