Education
FY 2023 Program Summary & Performance Measures
HIGHLIGHTS AND/OR SIGNIFICANT MODIFICATIONS
Cabarrus County Schools (CCS)
The budget includes a direct current expense increase of $2,573,164 to cover the rising costs of locally paid staff and technology; expenses for the new Roberta Road Middle School and Cabarrus Health Sciences Institute; including $561,000 to improve facilities and grounds maintenance. In addition $4.9 million is reserved in this budget for deferred maintenance projects. In FY22 the County and CCS agreed that funding for continuation and local supplements would instead go to deferred maintenance projects until FY25 to address a significant backlog in deferred maintenance projects.. The school district is using one-time federal funding to cover the gap until that time. This funding will become a part of the districts current expense funding in FY25 with $4 million for CCS, $487,887 for KCS and $345,693 for charter schools.
Kannapolis City Schools (KCS)
The budget includes a direct current expense increase of $268,437 to cover a 0.5% increase to the County-paid local salary supplement for teachers.
CAPITAL OUTLAY
Capital outlay funding is provided to address the minor capital needs of each district. Capital outlay items include buses or other vehicles, technology equipment, building improvements, and acquisition or replacement of furnishings and equipment.
Debt
The County issues various types of debt in support of school construction. General Obligation Bonds (GO bonds), Certificates of Participation (COPS) and Limited Obligation Bonds (LOBS) have all been used to finance the acquisition and construction of school capital facilities. Complete details of these long-term obligations can be found in the Debt Service section of this document.
The following Projects are planned for public schools within the County's Capital improvement plan (CIP):
COUNTY SERVER SPACE
Cabarrus County Government is engaged in a strategic partnership with the Cabarrus County and Kannapolis City School districts for collaborative technology services. An Inter-local agreement between each Local Education Agency (LEA) and Cabarrus County Government was executed in October of 2011. As part of Cabarrus County’s ITS Strategic Plan, Cabarrus County Government invested in two qualified data centers with the flexibility, scalability, support and capacity to offer a managed co-location to the school districts. Kannapolis City Schools continues to contract with the County for technology services.
Public Schools- Per Pupil Breakdown
Public School Funding by Source and Category
The table above shows the non-property tax revenues supporting public schools and compares this to the total county expenses for each school district. The sum of current expense, capital outlay and debt service result in a Net County Cost of $105,292,506, including $4,522,536, which is given to Cabarrus Health Alliance for school nurses. For additional years of Net County Cost for public schools, consult the Public-School Funding by Source chart in the Supplemental Information section, which includes data from Fiscal Year 2014 through Recommended FY23.
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES
School Park Maintenance - Cabarrus County Schools
Maintenance for these school parks are funded by the Active Living and Parks Department and provided through collaboration with Cabarrus County Schools Maintenance staff.
Special Olympics – Cabarrus County Schools
In accordance with a Special Olympics Service Agreement with Cabarrus County Schools, this item provides funding for one full time equivalent position to carry out duties related to the Special Olympics program within the County.
SAFETY
Safety is always at the forefront in Cabarrus County. The county is committed to providing students and staff with a safe learning and working environment. The Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Department works closely with partners in law enforcement to investigate and assess threats to schools. This partnership also provides us with the ability to have school resource officers in our schools.