The Lowndes County School District
The Bond Issue
LCSD Board of Trustees
$44,000,000
Campus and School
Perspective
Let’s Take a
Closer Look
Around LCSD
• Ages of our buildings
• Campus and School student
populations
• Student Transportation
• Recent renovations and building
projects currently underway
• Bond Specifics
• Fee In Lieu
Career Technical Center
Age
of LCSD
Buildings
NHM 1955
ALT.
1957
NHE 4-5 1958
CES
1959
CMS
1965
CHS
1980
WLE
1987
NHE K-3 1987
NHH
1992
WLHS
2000
2015
Cost per Student
CAL. 2,112
NH 2,531
WL 539
CES
1041
$5,833.75
CMS
490
$6,031.88
CHS
581
$7,507.52
NHE
1162
$5,953.02
NHM
576
$6,407.66
WLE
315
NHH
793
$8,261.45
$6,969.35
WLH
224
How will it be invested?
Career Tech Center
$11,000,000
New Hope High School
$26,000,000
West Lowndes Schools
$2,100,000
Caledonia
$4,900,000
All costs include
surveys, soil
testing, and other
soft costs
preliminary to
actual building.
Caledonia Campus
$4,900,000
Campus Master Plan
Expand Middle School into K-1 building
Renovate portions of the Middle School
Move 9th grade to upper elementary for a 9th Grade Academy
Demolition of remaining buildings
Additional parking
Bus loop extension
2 Biology Science Classrooms
Field House
What’s been
done already?
CES has 390 actual cars in
their car line every
A new CES is currently being
morning and afternoon.
built with district funds,
note proceeds and lease That’s 1/3 of their students.
(1041)
purchase.
The location eases traffic
congestion on the campus. CMS has 179 morning car
riders and 132 afternoon
car riders. (490)
$23,000,000
CHS has 52 students that
do
New Hope Campus
$26,000,000
New Hope High School built across the street from the present high
school this would remove the high school drivers from the main
campus
Will allow for rest of Master Plan to occur
Moving NHM to current high school
Demolish NHE 4-5 Building and some of the current NHM
Re-routing traffic
MEMA/FEMA 75-25 Grant for Gymnasium/Storm Shelter
What’s been done
already?
Field House
$2,000,000
New Hope Elementary
has 530 Car riders every day.
That is nearly 50% of their
student population. (1162)
New Hope Middle has about 130
students that do not ride the bus.
(576)
New Hope High has 400 who
do not ride a bus. This is also
about 50% of their student
population. (793)
West Lowndes Campuses
$2,100,000
Elementary School Renovations
Parking Lot resurfacing with spaces added
Electrically operated bleachers in P.E. Gym
Additional air conditioning in P.E. Gym
Additional Playground equipment
Middle/High School Renovations
Team Room for athletics
Resurface parking lot
2 additional ticket booths
Extend canopy for entrance
What’s been done
already?
Elementary
4 classrooms
High School
Office
Remodeling of the west half
Set of bathrooms
of the school (1972)
New office suite including a new
entrance
Repair restrooms
New Maintenance building
$2,000,000
300 of WLE’s 315 students
are bus riders each day.
WLH has about 50 students
who do not ride a bus to
school. (224)
$11,000,000
Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses
help students develop marketable job skills and
earn national industry certifications needed to
achieve their occupational goals.
LCSD Students at EMCC
School
CHS
NHHS
WLHS
Semester Students
2013 Fall
171
Remedial
36
Degree
53
2014 Spr.
148
25
45
2014 Fall
171
37
23
2013 Fall
262
56
67
2014 Spr.
233
22
70
2014 Fall
245
46
35
2013 Fall
93
30
19
2014 Spr.
68
16
19
2014 Fall
70
19
10
What CTE courses are currently offered at each campus?
CHS
Allied Health
Carpentry
WLHS
NHHS
Auto Mechanics
Engineering/Rob
otics
Co-Op
Business
Masonry
Did you know that
LCSD is part of an
elite group in
Mississippi?
That’s right!
We are 1 of 3 district’s
in the state whose
students don't have
access to a career tech
center.
CTE students can earn graduate honors as a Mississippi
Scholars Tech Master.
CTE students can work toward earning National
Certifications in 6 different areas including MS
Construction Education Foundation.
Mississippi Projected Job Openings
by Occupation and Education Level
until 2020
1. Less than high school - 57,000
2.Between high school diploma
and Associates Degree 308,000
3. Bachelor’s Degree - 73,000
4. Master’s Degree or Better - 34,000
A few words about taxes…
“My taxes won’t go up and Fee In Lieu?”
Fee In Lieu Tax
Just what is that anyway?
ad valorem means “based on value or worth”
It is a property tax based on a percentage of the county’s
assessment
of the property’s value.
Fee In Lieu
It is actually a fee in lieu of ad
valorem taxes in the amount of 1/3
of the value of the ad valorem tax.
Fee in Lieu was charged in effort to
attract industry to the Golden
Triangle area. The fee in lieu is
paid for 10 years and then it rolls
off as the industry begins to pay
its’ ad valorem tax. We currently
receive over $6,000,000 in fee in
lieu. This will continue to roll off
and become $18,000,000 in ad
valorem dollars. This will be a net
increase of $12,000,000 in ad
valorem tax over the next 6 years.
May 12, 2015
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