District previews Frontier Building reuse as site for behavior program, maintenance relocation
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Superintendent presented options to relocate maintenance out of modulars and to repurpose the old Frontier Building for an expanded Spartan Academy with STEM and life‑skills programming; board members stressed staffing, discipline policy changes and further public input before any decision.
The superintendent told the Fremont County School District #25 board on Nov. 11 that the district is beginning formal consideration of reuse options for the vacant Frontier Building, presenting a menu of possibilities that would shift maintenance operations and expand behavioral and life‑skills programming.
The superintendent said maintenance is currently housed in modular units behind Rendezvous with no running water and that moving maintenance into a section of the Frontier Building would relieve that practical hardship. The board discussed sectioning the building so maintenance would occupy a portion while other spaces would be used for student programming.
One option presented was relocating the district’s Spartan Academy to Frontier to create a larger behavior‑intervention campus with separate K–5 and 6–12 units, integrated Boys Town curriculum and a 6‑week Discovery Institute model for focused skills instruction. The superintendent said a recent ExxonMobil award (the speaker cited approximately $34,000) was used to purchase STEM supplies and that a STEM lab and a “life skills” classroom (basic trades and household skills) were proposed for middle‑school students.
Board members asked for guardrails: how students would move in and out of a short intensive program, whether a parent accountability component would be included, and what staffing and training would be required to avoid the alternative‑program pitfall of becoming a long‑term segregated placement. The superintendent said the district has contacted outside partners (including WBI) but that WBI declined expansion due to its own staffing shortages; the superintendent emphasized that more detailed policy work and a future work session will be needed before any changes to placement or discipline policies are proposed.
No formal action was taken; the superintendent asked for direction to gather more public input and bring back a detailed plan and staffing and facility cost estimates.