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district. It should be noted that there have been major increases in apartment enrollments in the past several years. • Total elementary growth: This is projected elementary growth far the SAPFO year on November 15 of that year. • Available Capacity at 105%: This represents the SAPFO capacity of the elementary schools at 105% using the capacity of schools with a 1 to 21 ration in grades K-3 and 1 to 26 in grades 4 and 5. • Projected Enrollment: This is the SAPFO approved projected elementary enrollment • Available Seats: This represents the remaining capacity in the elementary schools before reaching 105%. CAPS: If the projections are correct, then would a CAPS be issued if capacity remains. In both 2009 and 2010 SAPFO years, there is available capacity for approving CAPS. This includes the estimated number of students generated by CAPS issued previously. This changes if growth is much larger than expected. In 2009-10, based on the average generation rate, there are 1,450 units of CAPS available. The. three year average of CAPS units is 444 units. That would indicate that the issuance of CAPS should not be a problem for the next two years. The question arises in 2010 as to whether CAPS will be denied if elementary 11 is pushed back to an opening date of 2011. If funding is provided to open elementary 11 in August of 2011, additional capacity can be added at that time. Based an the estimated time it takes to complete the town approval process and finish construction, projects starting the town approval process after December 2009 would most likely get certificates of occupancy after June of 2011. These CAPS would be approved based on the increased capacity that the opening of elementary 11 would provide. With available capacity in the 2009-10 years, na CAPS would be denied. This scenario is based on projections, any larger than expected increase in enrollment could change the availability. That said, the change in the admission date for kindergarten must also be considered. The ,State of NC has changed the date that students must be age five before they can enroll. That change will move the October 16 cutoff date to August 31 starting in the 2009-10 school year. Projections indicate that 80 fewer students would enroll in Kindergarten that year thus increasing available capacity. Consequently, there would be a rise in enrollment in the 2010-11 school year. CAPS requested during the 2010-11 school year would be applied to the 2011-12 capacity with elementary 11 on schedule to open, thus the impact of that increase would be minimal. The projected level of service in 2010-2011 is projected to be 10b.$ o-o. This is similar to the LOS before Rashkis opened. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.