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Bradford County School District is a school district in Florida. The school system has a total attendance of 3,779 students project for the 2009-2010 school year. The Florida Department of Education provides a list of past, current, and future school enrollment totals for each district.
[edit] Website evaluation
- Main article: Evaluation of Florida school district websites
[edit] The good
- The website has contact information for elected and administrative officials.
- Meeting agendas for school board meetings are contained on the site. [1]
[edit] The bad
- The website does not have information on taxes, budgets, meeting minutes, contracts, public records, academic performance or background checks.
[edit] Budget
The Bradford County School District maintained a budget of $32,368,000. Of that budget, they spent $16574000 or 43 percent, on Instruction. $10,428,000 or 27 percent, of the budget was spent on Teacher salaries, as well as $10,402,000 or 27 percent, on Support Services, such as administration and janitorial workers. $1,187,000, or 3 percent, was spent on Pupils.
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Bradford County School Board Budget
| Where spent
| Amount
|
| Instruction | $16,574,000.00
|
| Teacher Salaries | $10,428,000.00
|
| Pupils | $1,187,000.00
|
| Support Services | $10,402,000.00
|
| Total Budget | $32,368,000.00
|
[edit] American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding
Bradford County has received $466,044 in Federal Taxpayer money appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. [3]
[edit] School board
The school board controls school property, establishes, organizes, and operates the schools of the district, including: establishing schools, adopting enrollment plans, providing for school elimination and consolidation, cooperating with school boards of adjoining districts in maintaining schools, maintaining the school year schedule and other more specific duties as outlined in the Florida statute. [4]
It operates, controls and supervises the district's public schools as well as determines the rate of school district taxes, with the option of two or more school districts operating and financing educational programs together.
Below are the school district board members:
Beth Moore is the superintendent and was elected to office in November 2008.[5]
[edit] Academic performance
Below is a chart of the school's grade based on the student's performance of the statewide test called the FCAT.[6] To see results, click on "show".
| School
| Level
| Grade: 2007-08
| Grade: 2008-09
|
| Bradford High School | High | C | D
|
| Bradford Middle School | Middle | B | B
|
| Brooker Elementary School | Elementary | A | B
|
| Hampton Elementary School | Elementary | A | C
|
| Lawtey Elementary School | Combination | B | B
|
| Southside Elementary School | Elementary | A | B
|
| Starke Elementary School | Elementary | C | A
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[edit] External links
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