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Superintendent outlines plan to 'right‑size' the district; board records motion to extend open‑enrollment window
Summary
Superintendent Michael Moore presented a multi‑year operational plan to increase facility utilization, expand programs and avoid layoffs; he asked the board to extend the controlled open‑enrollment (Policy 5121) deadline to allow schools time to publicize changed programming while staff holds faculty meetings and community town halls.
Superintendent Michael Moore told the board on Oct. 30 that Indian River County Schools sits at roughly 72–74% total district occupancy and that underused facilities and program mismatches threaten long‑term fiscal stability if enrollment declines continue. He presented programmatic and facility proposals intended to increase utilization, expand choice offerings and avoid reductions in force.
Moore described several concrete ideas: convert four under‑used middle schools to three through reconfigured feeder patterns; expand K–8 magnet programming where demand exists; relocate some magnet campuses to newer facilities to reduce high maintenance costs at older buildings; move the district's small alternative (IR Prep) to co‑locate at Treasure Coast Technical…
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