Southside Elementary PTA Advocating for Our School and the Brickell Community
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Southside Elementary PTA Advocating for our school and the Brickell Community Overview of Southside Elementary Museums Magnet School Southside Elementary PTA, 45 SW 13th St, Miami, FL 33130 [email protected] www.southsidepta.com April 2015 About Southside Elementary Museums Magnet School u Official FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) enrollment October 2014: 791. u Current Student Enrollment: 850. u Capacity proposed by the School Board after renovation: 860. u Current capacity due to structural condition of historic buildings: approx. 700. u Nearly 73% District Students, 19% Magnet, 8% Transfers/Other u Museums Magnet School u Bilingual Program, Spanish (BISO). u District Assigned Students Live Within 1 Mile of the School. Southside School District Boundary Southside Buildings u Original Southside School built in 1914. Additions made in 1922 and 1925. u The original building 1, along with building 2 are currently closed due to major structural issues. u New addition constructed in 2009. u New capacity was reached the same year the addition was completed. Southside Buildings, cont’d u Building 1: two stories, five classrooms u Building 2: two stories, five classrooms u Building 3: offices, teacher’s lounge, ESE, cafeteria Southside Feeder Pattern u District Feeder Pattern: School Grades 2014 2013 2012 2011 u Southside Elementary Southside B A A A u 45 SW 13th St, Miami, FL 33129 Shenandoah C C C C M.S. u Shenandoah Middle School Booker T. I C C D (less than 90% u 1950 SW 19th St, Miami, FL 33145 Washington tested) H.S. u Booker T. Washington High School u 1200 NW 6th Ave, Miami, FL 33136 Booker T. Shenandoah Washington Student Diversity Factors Southside E.S. M.S.* H.S.* Enrollment 850 1105 894 White 11 2 1 Hispanic 79 92 20 Black 8 6 80 Asian 1 - - Multi-racial 1 - - Free/Reduced Lunch Status 67 93 83 Limited English Proficient (LEP) 45 22 12 Male 48 51 55 Female 52 50 45 Title I? No Yes Yes *Source: Greatschools.org Concurrency Calculation Issue u Schools like Southside become overpopulated due to the number of new residential projects in the district boundary. u Section 163.3180, F. S . allows local governments to allocate students produced by new developments to a nearby school district for concurrency calculation purposes. u Those students cannot attend the schools outside their boundary and the necessary funds for school expansion are never requested due to the loophole created by Section 163.3180. u This results in developers avoiding school concurrency fees, while students that new construction generates still being assigned to the overpopulated schools. Sample Concurrency Determination Brickell: The Manhattan of the South u Densest residential corridor south of Manhattan. u Over 7,000 units recently completed or coming online within the next two years. New and Upcoming Developments within Southside School Boundary Project Name Developer(s) Status Condo Rental Total City Heights Section 8 Complete 0 98 98 Brickell House Newgard Group Complete 374 0 374 Millecento The Related Group Complete 382 0 382 MyBrickell The Related Group Group Complete 192 0 192 Solitair at Brickell Crocker Partners Planned 0 438 438 The Edge on Brickell Edge on Brickell LLC Planned 130 0 130 Brickell Flatiron Brickell Flatiron LLC Planned 552 0 552 Brickell Ten IB Corp/Waterstone Capital Under Construction 155 0 155 Brickell View Terrace Pinnacle Housing Group Under Construction 0 176 176 City Crossings Section 8 Under Construction 0 103 103 Indigo Hotel SunView Companies| HES Group Under Construction 0 0 0 SoMa Brickell Behringer Harvard|Monogram Residential Under Construction 0 418 418 1010 Brickell Key International Under Construction 387 0 387 Echo Brickell PMG Under Construction 180 0 180 Panorama Tower Florida East Coast Realty Under Construction 0 821 821 The Bond MDR Toledo & Rilea Group Under Construction 328 0 328 Brickell City Centre Swire Properties Under Construction 780 89 869 Brickell Heights The Related Group/Crescent Heights Under Construction 716 0 716 NINE at Mary Brickell Village LYND Development & LNR Property Under Construction 369 0 369 SLS Hotel & Residences The Related Group Under Construction 450 0 450 SLS Lux The Related Group/Crescent Heights Under Construction 450 0 450 Total Units 5,445 2,143 7,588 Southside District Youth Population *Source: DDA u Elementary school age children (5-10): 1002. u Middle school aged children (11-13): 337. u Children under 5 years old: 1230. Population Under Age 18 2014 Total Population Age <1 (Esri) 300 2014 Total Population Age 1 (Esri) 274 2014 Total Population Age 2 (Esri) 259 2014 Total Population Age 3 (Esri) 222 2014 Total Population Age 4 (Esri) 175 2014 Total Population Age 5 (Esri) 188 2014 Total Population Age 6 (Esri) 196 2014 Total Population Age 7 (Esri) 180 2014 Total Population Age 8 (Esri) 162 2014 Total Population Age 9 (Esri) 150 2014 Total Population Age 10 (Esri) 126 2014 Total Population Age 11 (Esri) 139 2014 Total Population Age 12 (Esri) 104 2014 Total Population Age 13 (Esri) 94 2014 Total Population Age 14 (Esri) 103 2014 Total Population Age 15 (Esri) 93 2014 Total Population Age 16 (Esri) 95 2014 Total Population Age 17 (Esri) 96 Total Population Under 18 2,956 School Impact Fees u Sec. 33K-11 of the County Code mandates: u “Any educational facilities impact fees … are expressly designated and earmarked for the accommodation of capital educational facility impacts reasonably attributable to new residential development.” u “The School Board shall spend these educational facility impact fees solely for capital educational facilities necessitated by new residential development.” u The development “boom” in Brickell should have produced millions of impact fee dollars in the last 5 years. u None of these funds were allocated for improvement or expansion of Southside Elementary, which is the only public school designated solely for the Brickell area. u Southside is operating at overcapacity. u There is no space to accommodate the new students being generated by over 6,000 units already approved to be constructed in the next 2 years. u New projects, such as One Brickell (1,400 residential units), are going through the approval process and will generate additional student population. Southside PTA Goals u K-8 conversion u Provide adequate middle school options for Brickell Community. u Continue with bilingual curriculum. u Expansion of the school facility u Demolition of Buildings 2, 3, including the cafeteria. u Renovation of the original historic school building that is facing the street (Building 1). u Construction of a 6-7 story state-of-the-art facility u Capacity for 700 – 800 additional students u Recreational Facility u Cafeteria u Classrooms u Offices u Designation of the Southside Park for school use u In order to add proper outdoor space for school sporting activities. Southside Park & Southside E.S. .