Fort Collins Charter School Secures $1.8M Federal Grant for Expansion

By: Kelly Lyell | The Coloradoan

Liberty Common School has been awarded a federal grant of nearly $1.8 million in support of the continued construction of its new junior high school campus, a school spokesperson said in a news release.

Liberty Common opened the new junior high school for seventh and eighth graders this fall in one of two adjacent commercial buildings at 1825 Sharp Point Drive in east Fort Collins.

The junior high school will expand into the second building and new facilities connecting the two for the 2026-27 school year, co-founder and Headmaster Bob Schaffer said in August while leading a Coloradoan reporter in a tour of the first of two phases of planned renovations.

The second phase is underway and will include a gymnasium, locker rooms, lunchroom, academic labs, special-education spaces and physical-education rooms, school spokesperson Kallie Cooper wrote in a Dec. 2 news release.

Liberty Common is a public school chartered by the Poudre School District but operated independently under laws governing Colorado charter schools.

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