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Board adopts 5-year educational facilities plan after growth presentation projecting 11,600-student increase over 10 years
Summary
Operations staff presented a facilities plan and a growth analysis showing concentrated housing growth in Lake Asbury, Oakleaf and Green Cove Springs; the School Board unanimously approved the 2025–30 Educational Facilities Plan and discussed funding limits for new schools.
The Clay County School Board unanimously approved the tentative 2025–30 Educational Facilities Plan (EFP) on July 29 after an operations presentation that outlined housing growth, student-generation projections and potential school sites. Board members voted 5-0 to adopt the five-year plan.
Mister Beeman, operations staff, said the district currently manages 43 district schools and serves about 41,000 students and that staff project an increase of about 11,600 students over the next 10 years tied to an estimated 19,000 new homes. Beeman told the board those student estimates rely on a student-generation rate the district updates every two years and on monthly tracking of certificates of occupancy. “We project that we're going to add at least another two schools in the next 10 years,” he said.
Beeman highlighted hot spots for residential growth concentrated in the county's unincorporated areas…
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