Under Durham Public Schools’ Growing Together plan, elementary students could be forced to move schools in the 2024-25 academic year.

Seventy-five percent of the 88,235 children enrolled in DPS schools during the 2023-24 academic year were students of color, according to state data.

With the board’s vote, DPS will close five elementary schools — Castro, Columbian, Palmer, Schmitt and the International Academy of Denver at Harrington — as well as West Middle School and ...