THE PLAN
A fiscally responsible plan to serve our communities for years to come.
What is the Plan?
A Solution to Serve All Learners
A One-Question Bond Referendum on February 10, 2026
The one-question Right Plan. Right Now! Bond Referendum for Buildings addresses serious needs within the district:
A performing arts center addition on the west end of the high school would support band, choir, and theater programs performances, including rehearsal spaces, practice rooms, a green room, set construction/storage spaces, and prop storage rooms. This space will also be designated as the school’s storm shelter to meet MDE’s requirements.
Security enhancements at the two elementary schools, middle school, and high school.
A new weight room to address existing Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) challenges.
Renovations at the high school to address deteriorating plumbing, outdated science rooms, ADA compliance, undersized and outdated learning spaces, outdated library/media center, and undersized cafeteria spaces, and the outdated home economics/FACS classroom.
How Will the Money be Spent?
Q: Does increasing funding for schools have any effect on academic outcomes?
A: The most rigorous research shows that, as scholars C. Kirabo Jacson and Claudia Persico put it, “there is a strong causal relationship between increased school spending and student achievement.”
To read the scholar’s review of that research, please visit: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pam.22520.
Site Plans
Sanford Elementary School
1. Relocate the main school entrance for enhanced security by routing visitors through the main office
2. Renovate current offices to create classrooms and special education spaces
3. Renovate staff workrooms and bathrooms
Ramsey Elementary School
4. Secure entry enhancements through renovation of two current special education classrooms and the adjacent vestibule into the main office with secure entrance
5. Current office to be renovated into special education classrooms
6. Additional renovation to create a staff work room with unisex toilet rooms
Montevideo Middle School
7. Relocate the main school entrance for enhanced security by routing visitors through the main office
8. A canopy structure will enhance the main entrance of the middle school and provide weather protection for students at arrival and dismissal
Montevideo High School
1. Renovate student bathrooms to address significant plumbing challenges as well as ADA needs
2. Relocate the main school entrance for enhanced security by routing visitors through the main office
3. Renovate office to support secure entrance
4. Renovate to create larger cafeteria/kitchen to support fewer lunch periods and a new family and consumer science classroom/lab
5. Renovate gym lobby to provide ADA compliant seating
6. Weight/fitness center addition to support physical education classes and athletics
7. Renovation of science labs to address failed plumbing and gas infrastructure as well as to update layout to support current teaching needs
8. Addition of new performing arts center with adjacent band and choir rooms. Addition also includes room for storage of sets and equipment
9. Addition includes a code-required storm shelter for student and staff safety
10. Locker room renovations to address significant plumbing needs
Project Milestone
Date
Timeline for Bond Project to be Completed
Mid-February - December 2026
Design/Construction Documents: High School
July - December 2026
Design/Construction Documents: Elementary Schools and Middle School
January 2027
Bidding
June - August 2027
Construction: Elementary Schools and Middle School
June - August 2027 and June - August 2028
Remodeling: High School
April 2027 - August 2028
Additions: High School
August 2027
Occupancy: Elementary Schools and Middle School
August 2027 and August 2028
Occupancy: High School