The $106.9 million bond referendum package includes a new high school, new middle school, art and gifted/talented classrooms, security upgrades, addition/renovation at Harwood Elementary School, addition at Horace Elementary School, and turf at all three high schools. The culmination of these seven projects will address the following challenges that the district and community are continuing to face:

Increasing Enrollment

Each year, West Fargo Public Schools gains an additional 400-600 new students. This trend has been occurring for nearly the last decade and is expected to continue through 2025. At the elementary school level, the district has the capacity of 5,768 students at 23 per class and 44 sections per grade. However, the district is expected to be well beyond elementary capacity by 2022-2023. At the middle school level, the district has a capacity of 2,600 students, but we will exceed capacity at Liberty Middle School already in the 2018-2019 school year. The high school level has a capacity of 3,100 students and will be surpassing that threshold in 2020-2021.

Equal Opportunity Measures

As we have grown, we have had to transition music, gifted and talented, health, and art classrooms into general education classrooms. Specialty classrooms do not exist at every elementary school, thus creating inequities in instructional time, student resources, and learning environments.

Student and Staff Safety

As the district has constructed new facilities, or renovated older buildings, we have made it a priority to meet a more stringent standard of safety in regard to how our buildings function. While significant work has been done in this area, there are still several schools that do not meet that higher standard of safety and security.