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CE: <br />Section II <br />Additional Information for Orange County School District <br />The City of Mebane lies partially within Orange County and students within the Orange County <br />portion of Mebane attend Orange County schools. However, the City of Mebane is not a party to <br />the SAPFO agreement and therefore does not require that CAPS (Certificate of Adequate Public <br />Schools) be issued prior to development approvals. In previous years, development activity and <br />platting of new subdivisions increased within the Orange County portion of Mebane. However, <br />changed economic conditions have curbed new platting and new construction in the past few <br />years. An uptick in residential activity is likely as the country emerges from "The Great <br />Recession ". Increased coordination with the City of Mebane regarding development issues may <br />be necessary in the future. OCS currently has capacity to serve additional growth, but it is <br />possible that development in the Orange County portion of Mebane could quickly encumber <br />available capacity. <br />Following the economic downtown, there has been an increase in multi - family residential <br />development which has added to increasing student memberships in both districts. Staff will <br />need to continue monitoring and evaluating the demand and growth of the multi - family market in <br />Hillsborough and the entire county as well as its effect on student membership rates. <br />Orange Charter School, located in the Town of Hillsborough, continues operating in the Orange <br />County School District. Additionally, a new charter school, The Expedition School, opened in <br />the Town of Hillsborough for the 2014 -15 school year and currently serves elementary and <br />middle school students. The opening of this school may have caused the significant decrease in <br />OCS membership at the elementary school level. Charter schools are not included as part of the <br />SAPFO Annual Report and, as a result, their membership and capacity are not monitored or <br />included in future projections. <br />5. Recommendation: <br />Use statistics as noted in 3 above <br />34 <br />