Here is how the DPS closure plan breaks down:
Schools to be closed:
Del Pueblo Elementary
Hallett Elementary
Fallis Elementary
Mitchell Elementary
Remington Elementary
Smedley Elementary
Whiteman Elementary
Wyman Elementary
Changed schools:
Place Middle School would cease operations and be changed to a magnet school for pre-schoolers through eighth-graders with a focus on immigrants and English-language learners. The new Place would become the neighborhood school from Whiteman and Fallis students.
Gilpin K-8 would become a Montessori school, serving infants through eighth grade.
Cole would reopen for pre-schoolers through eighth-graders and become the neighborhood school for Mitchell and Wyman students.
Horace Mann Middle School would cease operations and become a new preschool through eighth grade school.
Kunsmiller Middle School would cease operations and become a new sixth grade through 12th grade arts magnet program.
Jeremy P. Meyer: 303-954-1367 or jpmeyer@denverpost.com
