Board approves $26.1 million design-build modification for Jenkins Middle School addition

The Board of Education approved contract modification C2025101103 for a design-build effort to create a new seventh- and eighth-grade academic addition at Jenkins Middle School, with a not-to-exceed amount of $26,100,000 and a performance period beginning May 1, 2025.

“I move that the Board of Education approves contract modification C2025101103 for the design, build, and pre construction effort of a new seventh and eighth grade academic addition at Jenkins Middle School for a not to exceed amount of $26,100,000,” Director Jorgensen said when making the motion. The modification was seconded and approved by roll call.

Administrators told the board the request follows an earlier modification (about $5,441,757) that funded urgent repairs to Jenkins’ gym and media center so the campus could reopen. The newly approved modification covers a roughly 25,000-square-foot addition, demolition of the existing sixth-and-eighth-grade wing, design completion targeted for January 2026, and a guaranteed maximum price process to follow design. The contract lists a substantial-completion milestone in May 2026 and final completion by Aug. 1, 2026, in time for school reoccupation.

Staff reported that micro-piling and other preparatory work had already started and that temporary modular classrooms placed in the bus loop would be removed after the first year once the addition is completed. Administrators said all permits were in hand and that the project would include community input through an education committee to plan interior program and media-space reconfiguration.

Board members praised the speed of response since the building’s issues first emerged and asked administration to continue community engagement as design progresses.