The Board of Education unanimously approved the final draft of the Facility Master Plan – Step 1 on August 26, 2024. The Facility Master Plan is the roadmap and vision for WPS facilities moving forward over the next several years.

“This plan positions us for more sustained, future-ready success by providing new and innovative spaces for our kids to learn,” said Luke Newman, Director of Facilities. “It’s an investment in the future of our city, community and students.”

Highlights of the Facility Master Plan include:

• Rebuild 7 buildings on or near their current site, creating facilities properly sized for current and future enrollment with modern and flexible learning spaces, and updated furniture and equipment.
  • Elementary schools – Adams, Black, Caldwell, Irving, McLean
  • Middle schools – Truesdell, Coleman
• New facilities will be designed to support innovative learning spaces
  • Early Childhood Center - located at the current site of Chester Lewis ALC
  • Future Ready Center for Trades - located at East
  • Northeast Magnet outdoor athletic fields
• Renovate and Repurpose existing learning spaces will be enhanced to support new or expanded learning opportunities, maintain and preserve historic facilities, and assure high-quality learning spaces across the community.
  • Cessna Elementary - expand and convert to K-8
  • Isely Elementary - convert to K-8
  • Coleman Middle School - current building will be renovated and repurposed into an alternative learning center
  • Wells - current building will be expanded and repurposed to include Sowers Alternative High School to turn it into a 6 - 12 center
• Close and relocate current school facilities with programs relocated to new or repurposed facilities.
  
  • Chester Lewis Academic Learning Center - programs will be relocated to current Coleman
  • Dunbar Support Center - Multilingual Education Services and other programs will be relocated
  • Focht Instructional Support Center - Education Imagine Academy and other programs will be relocated
  • Gateway Alternative Program - program will be relocated
  • Little Early Childhood Center - program relocated to new Early Childhood Center facility 
  • Sowers Alternative High School - school relocated to expanded Wells Alternative Middle School
• Close current school facilities, relocating students to other nearby schools.
  • L'Ouverture, OK, Pleasant Valley, Woodland

Download the Facility Master Plan highlights

Map showing Facility Master Plan improvements across the district

Click here to watch the BOE presentation

“Our Strategic Plan and our Facility Master Plan support each other and connect. We need both of them in order to become the district of choice,” said Superintendent Kelly Bielefeld.

The Step 1 improvements are estimated to cost $450 million. The BOE will look at how the Facility Master Plan will be funded, including consideration of a possible bond issue to support the plan, during the September 9 meeting.  

More information about the Facilities Master Plan can be found at www.usd259.org/plan.