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Financing Plan

Future Project Information

Snoqualmie Valley School District No. 410 is currently constructing its third middle school.

Within the next six years, current enrollment projections show that the District will need two additional elementary schools, a new middle school, as well as additional housing for high school students. To finance these projects, money from voter approved bonds, impact fees, and/or mitigation payments for school construction will all have to be used. The District expects to receive some state matching payments for elementary school #6 and high school #2 included in this plan.

The District has calculated single family and multi-family impact fees as one source of funds to support these needed new facilities.

The District currently has permanent capacity to serve 2,390 students at the elementary level, 860 students at the middle school level, and 1,270 students at the high school level. Current enrollment at each grade level is identified on page 8. The District currently is short of permanent capacity at the elementary level by 198 students, short at the middle school level by 399 students, and short at the high school level by 199 students.

As a point of comparison, without the additional permanent capacity for additional students from new housing developments as explained in this plan, enrollment in 2012 would exceed permanent capacity by 1,286 students at the elementary school level, by 1,167 students at the middle school level, and by 780 students at the high school level or, a total of 3,233 un-housed students district-wide. These deficits in permanent student housing assume that enrollment continues to grow as projected on page 8. The District’s enrollment projections are based on the two-year, weighted average, modified cohort survival method, as explained on page 7.

To address existing and future capacity needs, the District’s future construction plans include the following capacity-adding projects: Middle School No. 3, Elementary Schools #6 and #7, additional space at Mount Si High School, and High School #2.

Based upon the District’s capacity data and enrollment projections, as well as the student generation data, the District has determined that most of its capacity improvements are necessary to serve students generated by new development, with the remaining additional capacity required to address existing needs. The modified cohort survival method does not adequately reflect all students generated from each new development within the District, planned future facilities are conservative and should be considered as the minimum amount of additional capacity necessary to serve students from new development.