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Utilization, headcount ÷ permanent capacity

October headcount divided by permanent FISH capacity for the same year — the measure the board's Attendance Boundary Committee prints as '% Utilization Perm FISH Cap'.

key utilization_permanent_pct · unit percent · no direction · not rated

This metric is not re-read cell by cell by the validation harness yet. It is written by the same loader as a checked metric from the same file family (see below), and its coverage is listed here; a component for it can be added in components.yaml.

Definition

October headcount divided by permanent FISH capacity for the same year — the measure the board's Attendance Boundary Committee prints as '% Utilization Perm FISH Cap'.

  • October headcount divided by permanent FISH capacity for the same year, as a percentage. This is the measure the board's book prints as '% Utilization Perm FISH Cap'. For 2025-26, which has no state report yet, the latest permanent capacity is carried forward; the fallback counts are recorded on the derived data load.

Derived metric: computed by derived.ts from enrollment_oct ÷ fish_capacity_permanent; the inputs have their own pages.

Source files

No registry entry backs this key directly; it is derived from the inputs named above.

Loader: scripts/loaders/miami/derived.ts · registry: docs/cities/miami/sources.yaml

What is served

  • Years: 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
  • 1,311 school-year cells across 333 schools; 0 stored as suppressed (publisher withheld)

What it cannot show

  • Headcount over permanent capacity runs higher than the state's COFTE-over-school-capacity measure at schools with relocatables and lower at schools with many part-time students. The three utilization measures are kept apart on every page.

How it was checked

Every served number runs through the four-check taxonomy described on the methodology page: (i) completeness, (ii) an exact re-read of the file by independent Python, (iii-b) a second publisher where one exists, (iv) recomputation of derived values.

(iv) Recomputed from the served inputs
ExpectedServedMatchesMismatches
1,3111,3111,3110

Harness: methodology and known gaps · components · closure-track verdict (93ea735c8bb9) · outcomes verdict (REVIEW)

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