school closures

The district hosted a series of community meetings in September to gather feedback from families and anxieties about potential impacts, including how students with special needs might be affected. Tuesday's meeting recapped the findings and potential strategies.

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.