Renovations to Begin at De Soto High, Junior High
Date Posted: May 29, 2025
Posted In: Projects,
From Leader Publications: Renovations to the De Soto Junior High and De Soto High schools are expected to begin next month, paving the way for the district to move sixth graders from the two elementary schools to the Junior High and some special education classrooms to the High School.
Those renovations will cost $487,081, according to board documents.
The renovations will begin during the first week of June and are scheduled to be substantially completed by Aug. 1, assistant superintendent of operations Joshua Phipps said Monday.
Renovations at the Junior High will include the creation of three new special education resource rooms, a new social studies classroom, a new choir room, a room for Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a sensory room, new restrooms, office space and additional storage, Phipps said.
“These rooms will go in our current ILC (Innovative Learning Center), which will be relocated to where our current PLTW room and weight room are located,” he said. “The weight room is being relocated to a former storage space that district maintenance staff are renovating. The creation of these spaces and movement of other rooms allows us the additional classrooms needed for the sixth grade to join the Junior High.”