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Sharp Point Drive Buildings

A Standalone Junior-High Facility

Opening Fall 2025

Liberty Common School students are setting an ambitious pace toward mature literacy.  They are making marvelous progress in preparing for citizenship and boundless futures.  They need more room to learn.

When Liberty’s Board of Directors voted in April of 2022 to double elementary classrooms to six per grade from three, we set out to fulfill the strategy by renting what has become the LCS Aristotle Campus.  Enrollment in that facility is still growing and being phased in such that, after three years of renting the Aristotle Campus, it is now prudent to buy it outright.

As envisioned, our first group of Aristotle 6th graders is now just months away from moving onward to blend with their academic peers from the Plato Campus in an expanded 7th-grade cohort beginning with the 2025-26 school year.  We’ve been working on a standalone junior-high facility to house them along with next-year’s 8th graders, and we’re close enough now to share details of the planning and vision.

The school is making progress toward acquiring property adjacent to the Plato Campus to house the new junior-high facility – 1825 Sharp Point Dr., and 1901 Sharp Point Dr.  It’s not a “done deal” yet; but, the permitting process has made our plans public generating lots of questions from the Liberty community.  This statement is intended to address as many of them as possible while acknowledging things change. 

We intend on gutting these structures, renovating them considerably, adding other amenities such as a gymnasium, and connecting the two existing buildings to make a single structure.  This will occur in two phases and will take about two years.  That’s the plan.

An important disclaimer to keep in mind right now is this:  There are many variables in the planning – hurdles in front of us that must be cleared, some are high. 

For example, we still have to close on the building.  Our finance structure is complex and big.  It involves adding a debt load to the school necessary to buying the Aristotle campus, buying the junior-high properties, and folding in existing debt on the two buildings we own (Plato and LCHS).  We still need a raft of government permits, approvals, and certificates.      

We’re optimistic about it all, yet cognizant something could fall through.  So, please read on with that in mind. 

Phasing the 2022 expansion plans is, of course, a welcomed progression for the families of the many hundreds of children whose names were on the school’s lottery and whose high hopes for attending our excellent school are finally realized.  Expansion fulfills one of the most fundamental objectives of the school’s mission statement and our Charter agreement with the Poudre School District. 

There will be lots of additional information rolling out in the coming months.  Liberty will be diligent in sharing it all.  In the meantime, please find nearby an “FAQ” document addressing likely and obvious questions parents may have about this exciting news.  

Some questions may need more time to be answered fully.  Updates will be communicated to make sure progress on our BOD’s vision is described in as timely a way as possible. 

Thank you to the many parents, grandparents, employees, and school founders who have devoted many months, in some cases years, to exploring, weighing, and evaluating the school’s eventual junior-high facility.  It has been a long time tracking the many variable factors that finally seem to be lining up to make the school’s inclusive mission more broadly accessible to families across Northern Colorado.

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Disclaimer:  Information below is subject to change as planning is still underway.  Please check back for updates.  If you have more good questions we ought to address and include below, please SUGGEST HERE.