school closures

The Broward school board has outlined 16 elementary schools, 15 middle schools and three high schools as it considers the second phase of a long-term plan to mitigate the district’s chronic under-enrollment problem through closing, repurposing and consolidating schools. The first phase led to the contentious closure of a school in Lauderhill earlier this year.

Closing Broward Estates is one of multiple repurposing changes passed at a recent school board meeting as part of the 'Redefining Our Schools' plan meant to course-correct the district’s chronic under-enrollment problem. But community members pushed back on the move.