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Pasco dashboard shows housing shift, rising voucher use and a projected enrollment shortfall that will affect next year’s budget
Summary
District presentation showed housing-growth heat maps, a rise in Florida Empowerment Scholarship participation and a projection of 664 fewer traditional students next year; staff said the trend, plus ESSER expiration, will reduce funding and drive allocation adjustments.
Pasco County Schools staff presented a new dashboard showing multi-year housing-growth patterns and used that analysis to frame a discussion about declining traditional enrollment, steady charter growth and a sharp rise in Florida Empowerment Scholarship (FES) use.
District demographer Mr. Williams showed a heat map of building-permit-derived school-impact fees and said neighborhood growth has shifted since 2018 from the SR-54 corridor into Wesley Chapel, Epperson Ranch and other eastern/central parts of the county. Williams also presented enrollment-growth figures: traditional-school growth peaked coming out of the COVID years and has fallen sharply; this year traditional growth was fewer than 300 students while FES growth was…
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