Kevin J. Beaty / Denverite
For the second time in three months, the Denver school board voted unanimously Thursday to reunify a comprehensive high school that had been dismantled in the past decade.
Montbello High School in far northeast Denver will reopen in fall 2022. To make that happen, three small schools — Denver Center for International Studies Montbello, Noel Community Arts School, and Collegiate Prep Academy — will close at the end of the 2021-22 school year, and a charter school will likely have to move.
Across town, West High School will reopen this fall. Both West and Montbello high schools were previously shuttered and replaced by smaller schools that district leaders hoped would improve education for the Black and Hispanic students who attended them.