AURORA — In what would be a first for Aurora Public Schools, an elementary school that has struggled academically since the day it opened may soon be handed over to an established charter school network.
Opened in 2000, Fletcher Community School serves mostly poor Latino students on the Denver-Aurora border near the Stapleton neighborhood. Despite attempts to reboot the school in 2009 and 2013 and to make smaller fixes, student achievement on tests has chronically lagged behind district and state averages.
Just last year, only 2 percent of third-graders met or exceeded state expectations on the inaugural PARCC English exam. At the same time, not a single third-grader was proficient in math.
Superintendent Rico Munn told his school board at their meeting Tuesday that APS officials had done all they could to improve the school and it was time to look outside the district.
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