Master Facility Plan

DCSD is Building Excellence for Davenport Students

In November 2021 Davenport Community Schools established a Facilities Master Planning Committee (FMPC) to discuss long-range facility planning. The FMPC consisted of one parent from each school, one staff member from year school and district administrative leadership.

The FMPC was charged with the goal of providing a recommendation to the DCSD school board regarding two questions:

What is the best grade configuration, number of school building transitions, and pathway/experience for our students?
What is our best path forward to right size the quantity of our school buildings to align with current and projected student enrollments?

Through collaborative efforts and data-driven analysis, the FMPC created actionable recommendations to the DCSD school board, ensuring the district's facilities are optimized to meet the evolving needs of its student population.

Studies and Recommendations

Enrollment Projection Study

The Enrollment Projection Study identified historical demographic and enrollment factors to project enrollment trends that will affect the District’s budget and general fund balance, allowing the District to strategically plan for future facility needs.

Enrollment is expected to decline by 749 students between 2021-2031 due to a combination of birth rates and open enrollment trends.

Enrollment projections suggested that the District should consider school reconfiguration and/or consolidation as part of its facility planning process.

Building Capacity Study

Existing Building Capacity assessed current capacity of existing buildings within the District.

These calculations can assist in determining the ideal number of buildings required to achieve efficiency within the development of an overall District-wide Master Plan.

Existing building capacity calculations showed an excess capacity across the District between 3,142 – 5,617 students when compared to 2021-2022 enrollment

Facility Study

Pathway Recommendations

Utilizing the information from the enrollment projection study, the building capacity study, and the facility study, the Master Facility Plan Committee considered several different pathway recommendations that included grade configuration and school boundary alignment.

Recommendations

Close three elementary schools to align building capacity to enrollment - Buchanan, Washington and Monroe

Align school boundaries to create clear feeder school pathways. View the current boundary maps here.

Move 6th grade to middle school. This will begin in fall of 2024.

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Facilities Planning Timeline

Project Implementation

Phase one of the Master Facility Plan includes the construction of a new Sudlow Middle School and Smart Middle School, new athletic facilities at West High School, new turf fields for all high schools, enhancements to Brady Street Stadium, and new science classrooms at North High School.