For the first time in at least eight years, Denver isn’t calling for any specific new schools.

Superintendent Tom Boasberg, the head of what was once the fastest growing urban school district in the country, cited slowing enrollment growth, limited money to build new schools, and rising test scores as the reasons.

Denver Public Schools released its annual “Call for New Quality Schools” in late December. In past years, the document included specific requests, such as a new elementary school in a fast-growing neighborhood or a new middle school to replace an underperforming one.

Anyone with an idea for a new school — or, increasingly, a replication of an existing school — could submit a proposal. The proposals weren’t limited to the specific types of schools the district was requesting, but it promised to provide buildings to those that best met its needs.

This year, the district isn’t doing that.

“Given current conditions, DPS is not making the promise of facility support in this year’s Call for New Quality Schools,” Boasberg wrote in a letter as part of this year’s document to community members and school developers.

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