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Capital Plan for Madison County Schools

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1) A Stronger Sparkman with a performing arts center and upgraded campus facilities 2) Addition of Performing Arts Centers at the

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3) IT infrastructure upgrades **All of which minimizes operational costs**

Increase Quality:

A Stronger Sparkman High

• 1. Build a first class performing arts and music

center

• Will provide a facility that all feeder schools &

community can utilize

• Will help choral, theatre, and concert band to flourish
• Will add classroom spaces to the existing school
• Will save tens of thousands of dollars every year used to

rent out other performing arts centers

• 2. Upgrade outdoor facilities to a championship

level

• 3. Maintain & enhance a wide range of academic
• fferings
• Band, JROTC, Journalism, Photography, Theatre, Choral
• Grants: Medical Academy, Project Lead the Way, Engineering

Academy, Advanced Placement

A Stronger Sparkman High

– Huntsville City Schools – Madison City Schools – Lawrence County Schools – Jackson County Schools – Scottsboro City Schools – Decatur City Schools

James Clemens High School

Systems with Performing Arts Centers

Increase Quality:

Every 7A high school north of Tuscaloosa has a performing arts center, with one exception…..…

Buckhorn High School Stage

No Madison County High School has a Performing Arts Center.

Monrovia MS Band Concert

First Class Performing Arts Centers at each 7A High School

• Will meet the diverse curriculum needs of
• ur diverse population
• Will vault the Madison County Schools to a

level playing field

• Will fill the missing piece that will take

Madison County to greatness

• Modernize IT infrastructure
• Increased pressure on network due to VOIP & BYOD
• Upgrades needed to backup network
• Hardware needs
• 74% of Madison County’s computers and servers are
• ver 3 years old (5% of Huntsville City’s computers are

more than 3 years old)

• $2.7M to upgrade Monrovia’s K-8 schools
• $14M for necessary technology upgrades district-wide

Technology Needs

Madison County students deserve a high quality educational experience, and now is the time!

A Divided Sparkman High School = A Weakened System

Academic Hit

• A split band program would result in a band size at

the remaining Sparkman High of 70-80 members based on current participant projections

• Due to budgetary concerns, Department of

Defense has temporarily suspended building new JROTC programs (100+ cadets at the proposed new school affected)

Academic Hit

• Top 10 nationally ranked journalism program

would be decimated.

• Largest photography program in the state would

be dismantled.

• Renowned theatre program would be crippled.
• Strong academic program would be fractured.

Is $43M Enough?

Other Projects

–Grissom HS projected $60M (2,000 students) –Hartselle HS $44M (860 students) –Lee HS $42M (1,200 Students) –James Clemens HS $58M (1,400 students) Note: Outdoor athletic facilities were not funded with these dollars. That will not be the case for the proposed high school.

Debt from BRAC

• Adds $43,584,808 in debt
• Yearly debt service increases by $1.9M per

year for 20 years to $11.3M per year

• This is a 20% increase over current debt service.
• Less Commission’s $500,000 per year

commitment for the first 10 years only

Operation Costs

• Moores Mill Intermediate: $750,000 initial

cost & $500,000 annually

• Proposed high school: $2,300,000 first year
• perating costs, then $1,200,000 annually

Budget Hit

• Potential $3M - $4M a year increase in
• perational and debt service burden from just a

few years ago with no additional revenue

• Debt and borrowing capacity is maximized for

capital improvements for the next 20 years.

1) “Sparkman is too large.” 2) “Sparkman is overcrowded.” 3) “Sparkman is growing.”

Misconceptions

Sparkman is comparable to other sizeable schools.

Large High Schools in Madison County Metro

1868 1849 1755 1749 1405 1398 1365

1000 1250 1500 1750 2000

Bob Jones Grissom Sparkman (10-12) Huntsville James Clemens Buckhorn Hazel Green

2013-14 Enrollments

Large High Schools in Madison County Metro

1883 1845 1742 1720 1600 1442 1421

1000 1250 1500 1750 2000

Huntsville Sparkman (10-12) Grissom Bob Jones James Clemmens Buckhorn Hazel Green

2014-15 Enrollments

2014-15 Madison County Combo Campus Populations

2230 2110 2470

500 1000 1500 2000 2500

HGHS + HGE BHS+BMS SHS+S9

Combo Campus Populations Past 10 Years

1000 1300 1600 1900 2200 2500 2800 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

S9 + SHS HGE + HGHS BHS + BMS

Madison County Combo Campus Populations

• 5.0%

2.2% 8.8%

• 6.0%
• 4.0%
• 2.0%

0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0% 10.0%

S9 + SHS HGE + HGHS BHS + BMS

Growth the past 5 Years

Sparkman Senior High is under capacity and will be for the foreseeable future.

Senior High School Enrollments - Past 10 years

500 1000 1500 2000 2500 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

Buckhorn HS Hazel Green HS Sparkman HS (10-12)

High School Capacity

(MGT Demographics and Utilization Study)

School Capacity 2014-15 Enrollment Utilization

Sparkman 9

1,008 619 61.4%

Sparkman 10-12

1,953 1,851 94.8%

Buckhorn High

1,491 1,445 96.9%

Hazel Green High

1,617 1,426 88.2%

Madison County High

861 480 55.7%

New Hope High

735 381 51.8%

Portables & Floating Teachers

School

Number of Portables Number of Floating Teachers

Sparkman 9 Sparkman 10-12

3

(AAP, Driver Ed, Health)

1

Buckhorn High

4

Hazel Green High

1

Madison County High New Hope High

Sparkman HS (10-12) Enrollment - Past 10 years

1500 1750 2000

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

Sparkman 9 Enrollment - Past 10 Years

550 600 650 700 750

Current Sparkman High (Gr 10-12)

Monrovia Middle School Enrollment - Past 10 Years

950 1000 1050 1100 1150 1200

Sparkman Middle School Enrollment – Past 10 Years

700 750 800 850

Monrovia’s K-5 Enrollment - Past 10 Years

1800 1900 2000 2100 2200

Legacy + Monrovia + Endeavor

6 Years of Enrollment Decline 2010-2015

Sparkman

• 2.2%

Sparkman 9

• 10.4%

Monrovia Middle

• 4.2%

Sparkman Middle

• 7.3%

Sparkman K-5

• 7.9%

Monrovia K-5

• 11.8%
• 12.0%
• 10.0%
• 8.0%
• 6.0%
• 4.0%
• 2.0%

0.0%

Sparkman 9th Grade

Previous 3 years of S9 projects SHS10-12

550 600 650 700 750

Current Sparkman High (Gr 10-12)

Sparkman Feeder 5th Grade Enrollment - Past 10 Years

500 550 600 650 700

500 550 600 650 700

Sparkman Feeder 2nd Grade ADM over the Past 10 Years

Sparkman 10-12 Projections for the next 7 Years

1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950

Capacity

Why we do not need a new high school

• Sparkman’s population is comparable to other

campuses.

• Sparkman is not over-capacity.
• Sparkman is not growing.
• With a new school, we lose academic programs.
• With a new school, we will have two incomplete

campuses.

• With a new school, we will have increase
• perational costs with no additional revenue.

We do NOT need a new school; we need to improve the schools we have.