Denver Public Schools will soon get eight new schools, four of them district run, four of them charter schools. Four of the schools will serve high school students or include the high-school grades. Three will be elementary schools, and two of those will include preschool. One will serve kindergarten through eighth grade.
The district-run schools are:
• Compassion Road Academy, to be located in northeast Denver and serve high school-aged students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.
• Denver Center for International Studies at Fairmont, which will replace existing Fairmont Elementary and serve preschool through fifth grade.
• Denver Public Montessori Secondary School, which will share a campus with Gilpin Montessori in northeast Denver. It will serve students in grades six through 12 the first two years, and grades seven through 12 after that.
• Excel Academy, to open in Southwest Denver and serve high school-aged students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.
The approved charter schools are:
• Academy 360, in far northeast Denver, which will serve preschool through fifth grade
•Downtown Denver Expeditionary School to serve kindergarten through fifth grade.
•Highline Academy, to be located in northeast Denver and serve kindergarten through eighth grade.
• West Denver Prep High School, which will open in northwest Denver and serve up to 500 students.
The schools were chosen from among 11 applicants and were approved by the board of education June. 21.
All eight are scheduled to open in the fall of 2013, and will join two other schools, Miller-McCoy Academy for boys in far northeast Denver and the Denver School of Science and Technology at Byers. Both will serve grades six through 12.
Karen Auge: 303-954-1733 or kauge@denverpost.com
