Michael Bayer

This document, titled "Collective Action for the Future: Right-Serving Plan Update," outlines a strategic direction for District 60 to address declining enrollment and underutilized facilities. The plan focuses on transforming the district into a "Destination District" through initiatives such as creating anchor community schools with resource centers, providing high-quality preschool and STREAM programming, expanding online learning options, establishing a rigorous middle school, ensuring high-quality Exceptional Student Services, and realigning school boundaries. Specific actions include merging schools in the East, Central, and South Quadrants, and developing a precollegiate middle school. The comprehensive plan aims to achieve economy of scale, optimize staffing through gradual changes, maintain facilities for support purposes, and implement systemic community schools to prevent a fiscally exigent situation by 2027-2028, ensuring equitable opportunities and supports for students and staff.

This document presents an update to the Right-SERVING Plan for Pueblo School District 60, aiming to transform it into a destination district through collective action. The plan focuses on enhancing innovative programs, optimizing budgetary resources, and reducing reliance on aging facilities. Key initiatives include creating anchor community schools with resource centers, expanding high-quality preschool and STREAM programming, developing precollegiate middle school options and online learning, and strengthening Exceptional Student Services. The update incorporates community feedback on school mergers, closures, and boundary adjustments, while prioritizing student transportation and support for a sustainable future.

This Rightsizing Plan Recommendation outlines a strategic direction to transform the district into a 'Destination District' through 'One Voice, Collective Action'. The plan aims to strengthen educational opportunities by enhancing innovative programs, optimizing budgetary resources, and reducing reliance on aging facilities. Key initiatives include creating anchor community schools with resource centers, providing high-quality full-day preschool, increasing access to STREAM instructional programming, expanding online learning options, establishing additional rigorous middle schools, ensuring high-quality Exceptional Student Services, and realigning school boundaries to better serve neighborhood communities.

The District 60 Board of Education meeting on November 11, 2025, addressed a rightsizing plan recommendation. The goal of the plan is to strengthen educational opportunities by enhancing innovative programs, optimizing budgetary resources, and reducing reliance on aging facilities. The plan includes creating anchor community schools with community resource centers, providing high-quality, full-day preschool, increasing student access to STREAM instructional programming, expanding high-quality online learning options for secondary students, providing an additional rigorous middle school, ensuring high-quality Exceptional Student Services programming, and realigning school boundaries. Specific actions include merging schools in the East, Central, South, and North Quadrants to create community schools and resource hubs. The next steps involve an additional informational presentation to the Board in December, with a requested approval by the Board in January 2026.

Pueblo School District 60 is rightsizing schools to address declining enrollment and uneven school capacity. The goal is to strengthen educational opportunities by enhancing innovative programs, optimizing budgetary resources, and reducing reliance on aging facilities. This may involve redesign, co-location, merging, consolidation/closure, or no action. No changes are planned for the 2025-2026 school year.