Enabling Conditions
Capacity $124 Million
Capacity projects are intended to solve for anticipated enrollment changes in the district, ensuring the appropriate number of seats are available for students.
Our investments by the community prioritized:
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Ceylon Phase 2: Expand Ceylon campus from E-5 to E-8 (adding a 6-8 wing) to accommodate population growth near the airport
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Gateway E-5: Ground-up construction of a new E-5 school in the Gateway neighborhood
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Capacity Utilization Fund: Support school program movement, consolidation, closure, and other changing capacity needs
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Center Program Fund: Facility costs for relocating or setting up new school-based special education programs
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Fleet Updates: Yellow bus, White fleet, DoTs fleet, and Security fleet replacements and capacity changes
Quality Learning Environments
$100 Million
Quality Learning Environments focuses on visible and functional investments to learning environments – projects that students, families, and staff will be able to see and experience directly. Our community focused on three investment areas:
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Focused Learning Environment Program: Funding allotments for schools to select investments to bring key learning environment spaces up to standards
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Educational Suitability Projects: Targeting specific needs at facilities that lack needed features typical for the school program being served
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Department Request Projects: Facility investments to support departmental strategies
Critical Maintenance
$301 Million
Denver Public Schools has an impressive but aging portfolio of campuses and school facilities. Our oldest school was built in 1889 (Dora Moore) and our newest school Radical Arts & STEAM Academy Denver (RASA), which is our first all-electric facility, opens for the 2024-2025 school year. As such, with over 186 buildings on 166 campuses, and over 17 million square feet of indoor facilities and over 2000 acres of outdoor spaces, our maintenance opportunities are significant. Through the recommendations of our Citizens Planning and Advisory Committee (CPAC), our citizen’s investments are focusing on the following Critical Maintenance Components:
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Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP), which boiler and chiller replacements, elevators and fire alarms
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ADA/Code: Which includes both Identified and Anticipated Code updates to our existing systems and spaces
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Environmental, which mainly includes galvanized domestic water pipe replacements and Indoor Air Quality monitoring
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Building Shell and Exterior Surfaces and Spaces, which includes roof decks, windows, asphalt, concrete, sod space improvements
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General Renovation, to include carpet, paint and other finishes
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Sustainability, which will increase our fault detection capabilities, water conservation through irrigation technology enhancements, and a building envelope study.
