{"id":76911,"date":"2025-12-09T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:18:40","slug":"these-7-broward-schools-would-close-under-superintendents-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76911\/","title":{"rendered":"These 7 Broward schools would close under superintendent\u2019s proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM<\/p>\n<p>District starting hiring freezeSuperintendent says his plan would close 7 Broward schools <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 On Monday, Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn unveiled a list of schools that would close and consolidate under the district\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.browardschools.com\/about-us\/redefining-our-schools\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.browardschools.com\/about-us\/redefining-our-schools\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRedefining Our Schools\u201d<\/a> initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The announcement came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/08\/something-that-cannot-be-rebuilt-tough-decisions-loom-as-broward-parents-fear-school-closures\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/08\/something-that-cannot-be-rebuilt-tough-decisions-loom-as-broward-parents-fear-school-closures\/\">a public meeting<\/a> where parents could weigh in. The initiative is in response to dwindling student enrollment numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The affected schools are:<\/p>\n<p>North Fork Elementary School, 101 NW 15th Ave., Fort LauderdalePalm Cove Elementary School, 11601 Washington St., Pembroke PinesPanther Run Elementary School, 801 NW 172nd Ave. Pembroke PinesSunshine Elementary School, 7737 La Salle Blvd., MiramarBair Middle School, 9100 NW 21st Manor, SunrisePlantation Middle School, 6600 W. Sunrise Blvd., PlantationSeagull Alternative High School, 425 SW 28th St., Fort Lauderdale<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Glades Middle School in Miramar and Walter C. Young Middle School in Pembroke Pines had previously been under consideration to close, but they were ultimately left out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This comes as a letter was sent to families on Monday informing them that the district is starting a hiring freeze. There will also be a freeze on out-of-county travel and limits on overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Major changes are coming to public schools in Broward County <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hepburn said many other large urban school districts are facing the same challenge of declining enrollment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t continue to kick that can down the road and hoping and praying, we need to take action, and part of that action right now is not (to) hire new people that we ultimately are going have to release at the end of the year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Broward County School Board will formally vote in January on the recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On declining enrollment, the superintendent said the district has lost several thousand students just this school year. Enrollment has fallen significantly over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM Updated:\u00a0December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM District starting hiring freezeSuperintendent says his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-76911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}