Denver Public Schools is looking at what to do with some vacant school buildings. Due to declining enrollment and subsequent budget issues, the district closed or restructured 10 of its schools last year. Six buildings are now vacant, and there could be more in the near future.
Rather than sell or let the buildings sit, they’re coming up with different ways to keep and repurpose them.
Tuesday was moving day at the former International Academy of Denver at Harrington. The school was part of a group that permanently closed at the end of the 2024-2025 school year.
“We heard really clearly from community that that one thing that they didn’t want was a was a vacant building sitting in the middle of their neighborhood,” Andrew Huber, DPS’s executive director of enrollment and campus planning…