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Heritage &

Summit View

School Pairing Community Meeting

Sept. 2025

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  • School Renderings
  • School Programming
  • School Name, Mascots, Colors, & Logo

Agenda

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WORDS�HERE

Project Management- Matt Wilhelm

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Paired School Renderings

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WORDS�HERE

  • Staff Forward Planning Committee
    • Met on September 10th
    • Created a Year at a Glance for 2026-2027
  • Parent Transition Team
    • Will meet on October 10th
    • Gather feedback.

Our next staff FPC will be working on academic alignment and school wide scheduling.

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Paired School Academics & Programming

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Enrollment & Class sizes

26-27 Projections: 516 Students

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Grade

# of Students

# of classrooms

Kindergarten

(unknown) estimate: 72

4 classes of 18

1st

88

4 classes of 22

2nd

90

4 classes of 22.5

3rd

92

4 classes of 23

4th

96

4 classes of 24

5th

78

4 classes of 19.5

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5th Grade Experiences 25-26 and beyond…

  • Outdoor Ed
  • Young Ameritowne
  • End of Year Dance/Event
  • Graduation

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Mountain Ridge Middle School Open House

MRMS will have a total of 4 talks- 2 for incoming 6th and 2 for incoming 7th. These will be held in the morning from 8:00 am - 9:30 am on the following dates:

  • Monday 10/6- 6th Grade
  • Wednesday 10/8- 7th Grade
  • Monday 10/20- 7th Grade
  • Wednesday 10/22- 6th Grade
  • Wednesday, 11/12- will be the evening session from 6-7pm (mixed 6th & 7th grades.)

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Reminders:

School Calendar Adjustment :

Last Day of School - May 28, 2026

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  • The Board will decide school names (Policy FF) and the Superintendent will decide colors, mascots, and logos. Both will want lots of feedback from you and our community.
  • Here is our tentative plan
  • Take the survey!

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Paired School Name, Colors, Mascot, Logo

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Q and A

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Have a question?

Katie Lawson, 26-27 Paired School Principal

Steve Colella, Chief of Staff

303-815-0139

scolella@dcsdk12.org

620 Wilcox St�Castle Rock, CO 80104

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Parent Survey

Survey Link

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