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Private School Moving in Colorado Springs

The head of school picks the weeks, the board approves the spend, and classrooms, library, and chapel each get their own receiving plan.

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Planning a Private School Move

At a private school, the head of school usually owns the move and the board owns the money. Once trustees approve the new campus or the expense, the business office knows what it can spend, and the head of school can choose weeks that miss commencement, summer camps, and the families who tour in winter and spring. Settling approval first saves rebooking later.

The building is often shared, too. Many private schools sit on a congregation's campus or lease a wing from one, so the church office may hold the keys, the Sunday parking lot, and the final word on which rooms are the school's to empty. We walk the site with your operations director and split the work three ways: classrooms move as teacher sets, the library moves in shelf order, and the chapel or assembly hall gets its own seating diagram. Trophy cases, donor plaques, and class composites are the school's to pack or take down, and we carry them once released.

Who usually signs off
Head of school or operations director, with the board approving the expense or campus change when required
Timing that works
Usually the weeks between commencement and faculty return, steering clear of summer camps that rent classrooms and of the winter and spring admissions season.

What typically moves

  • Classroom tables and student chairs Kept together with the teacher who uses them and tagged to the new door number the head of school assigns.
  • Curriculum shelves and manipulatives carts Teachers label what sits on each shelf; the emptied shelving is wrapped and follows its room.
  • Library ranges and book trucks Each range is numbered in its current order so the librarian can reshelve from the first range forward.
  • Chapel chairs, lectern, and altar furnishings A separate load placed to the school's seating diagram; staff pack any sacred or ceremonial objects.
  • Class composites, trophy cases, and donor plaques Taken down by school staff or their installer, then cartoned flat and carried as one labeled group.
  • Admissions office furniture Often placed first at the new campus when tours are booked, so visiting families see a finished front office.
  • Uniform closet racks and bins Rolling racks and bins travel with the business office and are checked against the new closet before loading.

Access and scheduling

After the board votes, the calendar belongs to the head of school. Commencement, alumni weekends, and camps that rent classrooms can all claim the building in June and July, and parent or board meetings may need the hall on a weeknight. We collect those dates up front and plan loads around them; evenings and weekends are available on request where the campus allows.

A shared campus adds the congregation's calendar. Weddings, funerals, and Sunday services use the lot and entrance the truck needs, and the church office may control rooms the school occupies. A leased building may also want a Certificate of Insurance from the school's mover. At the new campus, your operations director confirms which rooms are ready and signs off on the room names before the first load leaves.

Protection and handling

Each teacher set carries one label, the new door number. Tables get corner guards, shelves ride empty with their hardware bagged to the unit, and chairs stack by room. Library cartons carry range and shelf numbers, so reshelving follows the old order instead of starting from a pile. Composites and plaques ride flat, padded face to face.

Chapel furnishings load on their own, never mixed into classroom cartons. School staff handle anything sacred or ceremonial and decide who carries it. Mounted sound and projection gear waits for the school's audiovisual installer. Transcripts, student files, and financial-aid records are sealed by the registrar and business office and travel exactly as handed over. In the offices, the crew unplugs desk computers and printers, moves them, and sets them up again at the matching desks, while the school's IT contact handles the network.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Chapel sound, projection, and mounted displays
The school's audiovisual installer takes them down, rehangs them, and tests them; our crew carries whatever they release.
Pianos and pipe organs
A piano can go on a separate piano-moving booking with us. Any pipe organ stays with the technician who services it, outside the moving scope.
Keys, parking, and shared rooms on a church campus
The church office or landlord sets access and shared-space rules. Our crew works within the access they give the school.

Not part of our work

  • Sorting transcripts, student files, or financial-aid records, which the registrar and business office pack and control.
  • Taking down plaques, composites, or anything fixed or wired to the building; school staff or their installer handles that.

Around Colorado Springs and El Paso County

Colorado Springs private schools range from single buildings in the central city to larger campuses on the north side toward Briargate and Monument, and a good number share ground with a congregation. A hillside site can mean a steep drive and a tight turnaround for a box truck, and north-side campuses near Monument Hill see snow well into spring, so we look at the drive before choosing a truck.

The crew that shows up

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Private School Moving FAQs

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Do we need board approval before we can get a moving quote?

No. We can walk both campuses and give your head of school a written quote to take to the board, with classrooms, library, chapel, and offices listed separately so trustees can see each part. The date is held once the board approves and the business office confirms, which avoids booking weeks the board later changes.

Our school shares a church campus. Who needs to be in the plan?

Both the school and the church office. The school decides what is its property and what moves. The church office controls keys, the lot, and events such as weddings or services that need the same entrance. Name one contact from each, and we schedule loading around the congregation's calendar as well as the school's.

How does the library go back up in the right order?

The librarian numbers each range before packing, and every carton carries its range and shelf. The empty shelving goes up first in the new library, then cartons are set down beside their range. Staff or volunteers reshelve from the first range forward, and nobody has to sort a mixed stack.

Which rooms should be ready first if admissions tours start soon after the move?

Tell us the first tour date. We can deliver the admissions office, the front entry, and a model classroom ahead of the rest, so families see finished rooms while teachers are still unpacking. The head of school sets that order, and we load the truck so those rooms come off first.

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