Kelso School District Facility Bond Updates

On February 13th, the Kelso community approved a 96.6 million capital bond (thank you!) to make some much needed improvements to our schools. This website, WeAreKelso.org, is where you can find out what’s happening with the process and follow each of the projects.

What's happening?

Coming this summer!

Synthetic turf will be installed on Schroeder Field

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Recent News

How the Hilanders are like the Seahawks, Huskies and Cougars

Jul 9, 2018

With all the excavating going on at Schroeder Field, you may be wondering why they're moving so much dirt to put in a synthetic turf. What does it take to lay down some artificial grass, anyway? A lot, actually. Steve over at FieldTurf put the process into three steps...

We’re breaking ground

Jul 3, 2018

Work has begun to put in a new turf at Schroeder Field. The process from start to finish takes six to nine weeks, so there's plenty of time to come by and watch the progress. Here's what the fabulous new field will look like when it's done.

Making more school visits

Jun 26, 2018

We took a look at a few more schools in Tacoma last week to get additional function and design ideas for the three new elementary schools we'll be building. With the great work of the Ed Spec team, notes from the open house, and several great school examples in...

Improvement Updates

Click to see the latest updates about these improvements.

Safety & Security

$7.5 million

Door access control, video surveillance, exterior lighting, communications systems

Adding & Updating Classrooms

$11.1 million

Elimination of portables, added classrooms, updated career and technical classrooms

Three School Replacements

$92.9 million

Repurpose Catlin Elementary for non K-12 use and replace with a new school on Lexington property. Rebuild Beacon Hill and Wallace Elementary on their existing sites.