2. Pre-K College Readiness Career Readiness Citizenship

4. Seminole County Public Schools
2012 District FCAT/End-of-Course Exams State Rankings
Rankings based on Percent Scoring Proficient
17 Largest Districts
Reading
Math
1st Place Rankings
Rank 
3rd Grade
1st
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
3rd
7th Grade
8th Grade
2nd
9th Grade 2+
10th Grade
1st+
All Grades
 Rank
3rd Grade
1st
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
3rd
7th Grade
1st+
8th Grade
All Grades 15
Writing
Science
Algebra
Rank 
5th Grade
1st
8th Grade
2nd
All Grades
1st+
Rank 
4th Grade
3rd+
8th Grade
10th Grade
1st
All Grades
2nd
 Rank
All Grades
1st+
A plus sign (+) indicates a tie

5. Seminole County Public School’s Fast Facts
SCPS Total Budget $651 million
SCPS Total Square Footage 10,603,378 Square Feet of Building Space
SCPS Student Count as of 9/14/12 – PK-12= ,113 students
SCPS Employees 7,443 Employees
SCPS Busses Busses

6. Gaming and Computer Technology
Crooms AOIT
Gaming and Computer Technology

7. Modeling, Simulation and
Hagerty High School
Modeling, Simulation and
Analysis

8. Lake Brantley High School
CFE Brantley Branch

9. Lake Howell High School
Culinary Arts

10. Lake Mary High School
Forensic Science

11. Engineering and Technology
Lyman High School
Engineering and Technology

12. Oviedo High School
Bio-Science

13. Seminole High School
Health Academy

14. Winter Springs High School Renewable Solar Energy

16. Empty Seats
Empty Classrooms
vs.

17. Millage Language
Shall Seminole County District ad valorem millage be increased by up to one mill beginning July 1, 2013, and ending not more than four (4) fiscal years later on June 30, 2017, for essential operating expenses to: preserve “A” rated academic, vocational, arts, and athletic programs; retain highly qualified teachers: and repair and maintain school buildings with annual reporting to the county’s citizens to ensure fiscal stewardship of the funds?

18. Seminole County Public Schools s
The state rates - known as Required Local Effort are in red. Under the Florida Education Finance Program, school districts are required to levy this tax to qualify for FEFP funding. Notice the trend has been for the state rates to increase – they peaked last year the current year state required local effort millage rate is For the year this rate was
Contrast this with the millage rates set by the School Board which have been decreasing. The proposed current year rates are compared to in School Board property tax revenues have declined by $30M - 35% over the last five years from 87M in to a projected 56.5M in the current budget.

19. Seminole County Public Schools s
This is an interesting graph – The bars represent our general fund revenue per pupil of which more than 98% is funded by the FEFP. I like this presentation because it takes out the effect of changes in enrollment on our funding and focuses our attention on the change in revenue per pupil which I think is a better measure than the change in total revenues. I also think it useful to compare revenue per pupil to what it would be if our funding had kept up with inflation. The black line at the top presents the revenue per student if it had kept pace with the rate of inflation.
School Districts have a much more difficult time in adjusting to successive reductions in funding and to the effects of inflation. Most businesses faced with declines in per unit revenues find ways to improve productivity if they can afford the investment or they cut costs or both. School Districts are faced with the twin mandates of class-size maximums and the requirement to provide services regardless of cost to students with learning disabilities. The above graph understates the effect of the funding cuts on Seminole as an ever larger portion of the budget has been consumed by teachers of core classes leaving less for other costs and yet funding per student has been in decline for the last 5 years. Mr. Harper has calculated 2,945 of our teachers teach core classes.

20. Seminole County Public Schools s
Matthew 6:21 - For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

21. Needs not Wants Student Technology/Computer Based Testing
Visual Arts and Performing Arts Materials
21st Century Workforce Upgrades
Elementary, Middle & High School Science Labs
World Languages
Pre-K
Aging Facilities

22. The School Board of Seminole County
Tina Calderone, Chairman
Karen Almond, Vice Chairman
Diane Bauer, Member
Sylvia Pond, Member
Dede Schaffner, Member
Walt Griffin, Superintendent
400 East Lake Mary Blvd., Sanford FL 32773