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Poudre School District's board votes 4-3 to keep Blevins Middle School open
Blevins gets a reprieve and extra money
- 4-3
- board vote to remove Blevins from the closure list
- $250,000
- more for each of the next two years
- 5 years
- minimum the board committed to keeping Blevins open
- 9
- schools the September committee recommended closing
Sources: The Coloradoan, The Rocky Mountain Collegian
If you have a kid at Blevins Middle School, there's good news. The Poudre School District Board of Education removed Blevins from its list of approved school closures at a special meeting Thursday, Nov. 12, by a 4-3 vote. The board committed to keeping the school open for at least five more years and giving it an additional $250,000 for each of the next two years for marketing and to stabilize staffing.
It's a turnaround. The board had earlier voted 5-2 to close Blevins and Beattie, Johnson and Putnam elementary schools. The district's planning committee had recommended closing nine schools and consolidating two, citing declining birth rates, a high cost of living and fewer families in the district.
- Closure schedule: the 2027-28 and 2028-29 school years
- Mountain schools: removed from the closure list earlier
- Community concerns: equity and transportation time for mountain students
Blevins came off the closure list on Nov. 12
- SeptemberPlanning committee recommends closing nine schools and consolidating two.
- Oct. 27Board votes 5-2 to close Beattie, Johnson, Putnam and Blevins.
- Nov. 12Board votes 4-3 to remove Blevins from the closure list.
Sources: The Coloradoan, The Rocky Mountain Collegian
