SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- New class size amendment restrictions in Florida mean more portable classrooms around Central Florida schools. The amendment passed in 2002, but this year, lawmakers want no more than 18 students in classrooms up to 3rd grade. They want 22 students for 4th through 8th grade and 25 students per class in high school.

Some say the rules are making an ugly impact on local schools. Seminole County schools say it raised $130 million over the past ten years to renovate, expand schools and also to ultimately get rid of portables.

"I don't like the idea of portables. I just think that they overcrowd the schools," a parent said.

But the district just had to order eight new portables at Lake Brantley High School.

"I think that's terrible, but I mean what's the solution? Build more schools?" said another parent.

Seminole County is just one of many districts across the state trying to fulfill Florida’s class size amendment requirement. While many parents and students are unhappy about portables, Mike Jones and his company are making money off of them.

"We're under the gun to perform," Jones said.

Southeast Modular Manufacturing based in Leesburg constructs the portables for schools statewide and it has already built 120 classrooms this year compared to 60 for all of 2009.

"A lot of times it's not soon enough and we have to put on more people," Jones said.

Once the supplies are in, which can take three to four weeks, the company says it can build four portables one a day.

Southeast Modular just completed an order of 100 portables for Hillsborough County this past month. Jones says he has no more orders from distributors at the moment but the schools, which have until October to fulfill class size requirements, could ask for more.

In Orange County, the schools district says it will also be adding more portables, but doesn't know how many because it is still figuring its total student count for the 2010-2011 school year.