Though classes in Florida’s Broward County resumed last week, some schools did not reopen, with the district planning to repurpose the campuses they previously occupied.
On Jan. 21, the Broward County School Board voted to close and consolidate six schools. According to the school district’s website, each has a repurposed use:
- Sunshine Elementary School, repurposed as district offices housing staff from Rock Island Professional Development Center.
- Panther Run Elementary School, repurposed as district offices housing staff from the TSSC Building.
- Plantation Middle School, repurposed as district offices housing staff from the TSCC and TSCC annex buildings.
- North Fork Elementary School, intended as a “multi-use redesign by Sistrunk Rising Group,” to include “affordable housing, workforce training, hotel” and “path-to-homeownership townhome units.”
- Palm Cove Elementary School, repurposed as a branch campus of Sheridan Technical Center.
- Seagull Alternative High School “will be accepting proposals” for either a P3 agreement, “or facility or land lease agreement.”
Additionally, the campus that housed Broward Estates Elementary, which was “redefined” earlier, in 2024-2025, was repurposed as an Early Learning and Community Resource Center.
Superintendent Howard Hepburn called the closures one of several “cost saving measures,” essential for a district that he said had lost over 40,000 students in the past 10 years, or over $30 million in revenue…