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Boundaries and Demographics

Planning for Successful Futures...

The Boundaries and Demographics section of the Planning Department includes six members of the Planning Department staff.  The boundaries section facilitates the boundary change process including the Advisory Boundary Committee, demographics, enrollment projections, trend analysis, enrollment verification, school boundary assignments and other information related to school-county demographics.

Advisory Boundary Committee (ABC) Members & Policy 5.012

The Advisory Boundary Committee (ABC) is made up of appointed volunteers from the community who meet on a regular basis to review enrollment projections and demographic trends guided by Board Policy 5.012. During the year, the ABC Committee provides recommendations to the Superintendent and School Board members who are then responsible for making final decisions about adjusting and/or creating School Boundaries. This process occurs on an annual basis and is overseen by the Planning Department.

2011-12 boundary cycle of the Advisory Boundary Committee (ABC) The 2011-12 boundary cycle began Thursday, March 18th, 2010 and will continue through December 2010.  All ABC meetings for the 2011-12 boundary cycle will be held on Thursdays from 6:30-9:00 pm in the Board Room of the Fulton Holland Educational Services Center at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406.  The first meeting was an organizational meeting to review policies, procedures, elect an Advisory Boundary Committee chair (Cinthia Becton) and vice-chair (Carmen Ann Campbell), establish ABC meeting dates for March to early September, and review possible boundary changes to address for the 2011-12 School Year.  To access agendas and information for each meeting click on the related calendar date on the left of this web page, then scroll to the 6:30 pm time, and double click on the title of the meeting which will open the list of documents for the meeting.  Community Input Meetings (CIM) will occur in the fall after initial boundary proposals have been voted on by the ABC to take out for community input.  Dates, times and locations of fall CIM and ABC meetings will be posted to the calendar once they are set by the committee in the fall. 2011-12 ABC Meeting Schedule-read the articles below for updates on actions taken at meetings listed here March 18 April 15 May 6 & 20 June 3 & 17 Cancelled September 16 The ABC members thank Jose Barrios of Costco-Lantana for providing donations of food for each meeting.  Costco has been a generous business partner with the ABC for two years.

Advisory Boundary Meeting News, Updates, Action Notices

All ABC meetings are held in the Board Room of the Fulton-Holland Educational Services Center at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd. (located just west of Congress Avenue).  Community Input Meetings for each boundary proposal are held at various sites through out the county from September -November.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Action of the ABC on May 20, 2010

The ABC voted unanimously (14) to take Study S-1 (relief for Sunset Palms Elementary) out for Community Input Meeting in the fall- time, date and location to be announced in September.

The ABC voted (3-11 motion failed) to postpone voting on Study WW-1 to align feeder patterns for Woodlands Middle with the
boundary Study S-1 above.

The ABC voted (11-3) to take Study WW-1 out for Community Input Meeting (align feeder patterns with Study S-1 to take areas from Woodlands Middle School) with the time and date of the meeting to be announced in September.

Thursday, May 6, 2010 ABC meeting

Action of the ABC on May 6, 2010:

The ABC voted unanimously (13) to take Study B-2 (relief for Berkshire Elementary) out for Community Input Meeting in the fall- time, date and location to be announced in September.

The ABC voted unanimously (13) to take Study FFF-2 (feeder alignment with Study B-2 and relief for Forest Hill High School) out for Community Input Meeting in the fall- time, date and location to be announced in September.

The ABC voted (12-1) to not consider Study F-1 for relief of Freedom Shores Elementary during the 2011-12 boundary cycle.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Spec Mtgs and Workshops re Operations

The Board unanimously approved (Dr. Robinson was absent) boundary change P-1 Amended to relieve Palm Beach Public School effective August 2010.   

Click on the e-agenda link below to access the description and documents related to this meeting:

http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/agenda/Wednesday,%20April%2007,%202010%20Spec%20Mtgs%20and%20Workshops%20re%20Operations/5EF999D3-D227-4A2C-956F-3509F49EB8DE-ED99691A-806E-4E1A-98EE-969C7FA89307.HTM

Click here for all meeting dates for the 2010-11 boundary cycle.