By B.C. Manion
The Pasco County School Board has approved a 15-year charter renewal for Imagine School at Land O’ Lakes.
The board supported its staff’s recommendation to grant the renewal and to allow the school to increase its student enrollment by 20 percent for the 2013-14 school year.
Under terms of the contact, the school will be allowed to have 704 students in 2013-14 and up to 728 students in kindergarten through eighth-grade for the remaining years of the contract.
The school’s previous five-year contract expired on June 30.
The district and school agreed to terms of the renewed contract on June 19, and the school board approved the charter renewal on July 2.
Imagine School at Land O’ Lakes opened in August 2008, with an enrollment of 397 students. It had 630 students last year.
The school received a grade of B in 2008-09, a C in 2009-2010 and received As in 2010-11 and 2011-2012. The school grades for 2012-13 were not yet available when the school board considered the agenda item.
The school district will conduct annual reviews of Imagine School at Land O’ Lakes and may terminate the contract for statutory and other good cause as defined in the charter.
The school’s charter is now valid until June 30, 2028.
