De Pere school district to develop facilities plan

BY LEE REINSCH
CORRESPONDENT
DE PERE – Lacking a crystal ball, the Unified School District of De Pere will get some aid from a area architect and engineering agency to evaluate what is about the horizon for the district.

The Board of Instruction voted unanimously this 7 days to associate with Somerville Architects and Engineers of Eco-friendly Bay to enable the district examine what wants to be accomplished in purchase to get ready its facilities for the years to occur.

The school district will pay out Somerville close to $9,500 for the assistance.

Somerville will evaluate all of the structures in the faculty district with an eye to present-day ability degrees and long term growth, expansion, progress in the district, enrollment projections and inhabitants tendencies, as perfectly as trying to keep instruction trends and learning kinds in brain.

The board voted final month to perform with two tutorial consultants, Howick Associates, of Waunakee, and Faculty Perceptions, of Slinger, to create a strategic strategy.

That will be a seven-thirty day period approach that will support the district update its mission, establish main values and lay out a route for long term educational programming.

“When information from the strategic prepare and facilities programs are blended, they will present a coherent tactic for the Unified School District of De Pere group for transferring toward the District’s wanted long run state,” Dr. Christopher Thompson, superintendent of educational facilities for the Unified College District of De Pere, reported.

The services approach may well consist of a feasibility analyze.

Somerville will glance at all of the district’s structures, inside of and out, (which include home windows, roofs, parking lots and sidewalks) electrical programs, heating and air flow, plumbing, protection devices, accessibility, as perfectly as quality level configurations.

The current pupil inhabitants of the faculty district is about 4,400 learners, with a collective staff members of 575.

The facilities in the district consist of De Pere Substantial Faculty, De Pere Middle University (grades 7-8), Foxview Intermediate College (grades 5-6), and the three elementary (K-4) educational facilities: Dickenson Elementary School, Susie G. Altmayer Elementary College and Heritage Elementary University.
Several non-public daycare services supply pre-kindergarten providers, as does an onsite finding out centre at the high university.

The district office is on the campus of the superior university as perfectly.

According to the most recent enrollment rely, Foxview Intermediate is eight learners more than capacity (potential is 650 enrollment is 658) De Pere Center College is at ability (enrollment is 675) De Pere Significant University has area for an supplemental 42 students (potential is 1,500 enrollment is 1,458) Dickinson Elementary has house for an further 74 pupils (capability is 594 enrollment is 520) Heritage Elementary has place for an supplemental 64 pupils (potential is 638 enrollment is 574) and Susie G. Altmayer Elementary has ability for 216 students (capacity is 638 enrollment is 422).

Other engineering corporations the district deemed have been inquiring fees as high as $53,000 to do the do the job, with the up coming most affordable selling price to Somerville at $18,400.