A charter school in northwest Arvada is expanding to meet the needs of a rapidly developing area that has surpassed the capacity of its neighborhood schools.
at 6980 Pierce St. is expanding to include sixth grade on its Arvada campus and is also increasing 7-12 grade enrollment.
“We will potentially double in size next year,” said Two Roads principal Wendy Noel.
The school currently enrolls 275 students and the sixth-grade expansion will help ease high enrollment numbers at nearby Meiklejohn and West Woods elementary schools.
Noel said Two Roads K-6 students are currently homeschooled three or four days of the week, with the rest spent in classrooms. The decision to incorporate sixth grade came in response to parent emails. Sixth-graders will now join seventh- and eighth-graders in the school’s middle school program.
“We’re currently in open-enrollment, so depending on how that goes, we’ll either do one track of 22 sixth-grade students or two tracks with 44 students total,” Noel said.
Six neighborhood schools along the Colorado 93 corridor stretching from Golden to north Arvada
Most of that growth is being spurred by the ; along with other smaller projects, a build-out of 5,000 residential units is expected to be finished in the next five or six years.
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Two roads charter school meeting
What: Parent information night
When: Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: 6980 Pierce St. in Arvada
Info: 303 423-3377 ext. 227
