Concurrency Service Areas
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In order to implement a school concurrency program, a geographic area must be defined that will “serve” new development. In Hillsborough County, individual school attendance zones are used to assess the impact of new development on school capacity. In the context of school concurrency, attendance zones are referred to as concurrency service areas, or CSAs.
Any proposed development (at the subdivision and/or site plan stage) must be evaluated to determine if the three school levels (elementary, middle and high) have adequate capacity to serve the new development. New school facilities programmed within the first three years of the School Board’s adopted 5-Year Work Plan are also considered to be "in place" for the purpose of evaluating school capacity.
School concurrency requires that if capacity is not available in any one of those areas, contiguous service areas must be reviewed for capacity. If capacity exists in the contiguous area, it is considered to have capacity for the project's impact. Florida statute states that the “impact of the new development must be shifted to the contiguous service area.” In Hillsborough County, a policy limits the “shifting” of the impact to contiguous service areas if that service area is already at or exceeds 95% of its capacity as defined.
To determine the school attendance boundaries for a proposed development, please visit the school locator tool.
The maps below display the capacity status of each CSA. The capacity is defined as either passing, meaning it currently has capacity to serve new development; passing adjacent, meaning capacity exists in a contiguous CSA to serve new development; or no capacity, meaning the CSA and contiguous service areas currently have no capacity for new development.
Please note, available school capacity changes daily, and these maps provide a snapshot in time.
