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District to open 5 new schools
The Douglas County School District will open five new schools next fall, said Jim Wages, director of construction for the district.
By By: Susan Dage-Ruby
The Douglas County School District will open five new schools next fall, said Jim Wages, director of construction for the district.
Three of the schools will be elementary schools, which are slated to open sometime after Labor Day in 2003, Wages said.
Elementary School No. 35 in Castle Pines area will relieve Buffalo Ridge Elementary, said Tom Bell, director of planning for the school district.
Elementary No. 38 in Stroh Ranch will relieve Mountain View and Northeast Elementary schools in Parker, and No. 40 in Castlewood Ranch will relieve Rock Ridge in Castle Rock, Bell said.
The schools, which cost about $10 million each to build, use two design prototypes, Wages said.
Elementary schools Nos. 35 and 38 will be two stories and No. 40 will be one story, Wages said.
"All three of the elementary schools had some delays," Wages said. "But No. 35 is about 10 percent complete, No. 38 is 30 percent and No. 40 is 40 percent complete."
The boundaries for Elementary No. 35 were established earlier this year, Bell said.
Boundaries for Nos. 38 and 40 were to be presented to the school board at its meeting Tuesday.
The Long Range Planning committee was to recommend that Elementary No. 38 draw from Cherry Creek Highlands, Country Meadows, King Ranch Estates and Stroh Ranch subdivisions in the Parker area, a presentation to the board said.
The committee also will recommend boundaries for Elementary No. 40, Castlewood Ranch, which would draw from Castlewood Ranch filings No. 1 and 2, and various Founders Village filings in the Castle Rock area.
The district also is building two middle schools slated to open in the fall of 2003, Wages said.
Mountain Ridge Middle School, which compliments Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, is about 70 percent complete, Wages said.
Middle School No. 7 and its companion High School No. 7, are both under construction at Monarch and McArthur Road in Highlands Ranch.
The middle school is about 60 percent complete and the high school about 20 percent, Wages said.
A presentation to the school board Tuesday was to discuss recommendations for naming the schools.
Out of 115 suggested names, 73 suggested mascots and 71 suggested color combinations, the naming committee narrowed the field down to five options that were taken to the students for feedback and voting, said a memo from Annette Fante, director of middle schools, and Ray Smith, director of high schools. The names were then narrowed down to the three most popular and were presented to the board.
The students' choices for high school names, in order of preference, are Rock Canyon, with black and gold as the colors and Jaguars as the mascot; Independence, with navy blue and gold as colors and Timberwolves as mascots; and Frontier, with black, aqua and silver as colors and Buffaloes as the mascot.
The choices for the middle school were Rocky Heights, with navy blue and silver as the colors; Sky Line, with navy blue and gold as colors; and Canyon Crest, with red, white and blue as colors. The middle school students have not adopted a mascot.
The board will be asked to accept the names Rocky Heights Middle School and Rock Canyon High School.
Both middle schools cost about $15.5 million to build, Wages said.
Middle School No. 7 will be complete in August 2003 for ninth- and 10th-graders. In its second year it will house eighth- and ninth-graders and the High School No. 7 will be open, Wages said.
The high school will cost about $28.5 million to build.
All construction is paid for by the 2000 bond election of $178.2 million, Wages said.
Three of the schools will be elementary schools, which are slated to open sometime after Labor Day in 2003, Wages said.
Elementary School No. 35 in Castle Pines area will relieve Buffalo Ridge Elementary, said Tom Bell, director of planning for the school district.
Elementary No. 38 in Stroh Ranch will relieve Mountain View and Northeast Elementary schools in Parker, and No. 40 in Castlewood Ranch will relieve Rock Ridge in Castle Rock, Bell said.
The schools, which cost about $10 million each to build, use two design prototypes, Wages said.
Elementary schools Nos. 35 and 38 will be two stories and No. 40 will be one story, Wages said.
"All three of the elementary schools had some delays," Wages said. "But No. 35 is about 10 percent complete, No. 38 is 30 percent and No. 40 is 40 percent complete."
The boundaries for Elementary No. 35 were established earlier this year, Bell said.
Boundaries for Nos. 38 and 40 were to be presented to the school board at its meeting Tuesday.
The Long Range Planning committee was to recommend that Elementary No. 38 draw from Cherry Creek Highlands, Country Meadows, King Ranch Estates and Stroh Ranch subdivisions in the Parker area, a presentation to the board said.
The committee also will recommend boundaries for Elementary No. 40, Castlewood Ranch, which would draw from Castlewood Ranch filings No. 1 and 2, and various Founders Village filings in the Castle Rock area.
The district also is building two middle schools slated to open in the fall of 2003, Wages said.
Mountain Ridge Middle School, which compliments Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, is about 70 percent complete, Wages said.
Middle School No. 7 and its companion High School No. 7, are both under construction at Monarch and McArthur Road in Highlands Ranch.
The middle school is about 60 percent complete and the high school about 20 percent, Wages said.
A presentation to the school board Tuesday was to discuss recommendations for naming the schools.
Out of 115 suggested names, 73 suggested mascots and 71 suggested color combinations, the naming committee narrowed the field down to five options that were taken to the students for feedback and voting, said a memo from Annette Fante, director of middle schools, and Ray Smith, director of high schools. The names were then narrowed down to the three most popular and were presented to the board.
The students' choices for high school names, in order of preference, are Rock Canyon, with black and gold as the colors and Jaguars as the mascot; Independence, with navy blue and gold as colors and Timberwolves as mascots; and Frontier, with black, aqua and silver as colors and Buffaloes as the mascot.
The choices for the middle school were Rocky Heights, with navy blue and silver as the colors; Sky Line, with navy blue and gold as colors; and Canyon Crest, with red, white and blue as colors. The middle school students have not adopted a mascot.
The board will be asked to accept the names Rocky Heights Middle School and Rock Canyon High School.
Both middle schools cost about $15.5 million to build, Wages said.
Middle School No. 7 will be complete in August 2003 for ninth- and 10th-graders. In its second year it will house eighth- and ninth-graders and the High School No. 7 will be open, Wages said.
The high school will cost about $28.5 million to build.
All construction is paid for by the 2000 bond election of $178.2 million, Wages said.
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