Reopening of Montbello High School means ‘absolutely everything’ to many in community

It was billed as the largest school turnaround effort in Denver Public Schools history. The vote to close Montbello High School more than a decade ago, was meant to usher in high performing schools for far northeast Denver.

But it left a large part of the city without a comprehensive high school. 

Bryan Sanders, a Montbello alum, parent and an old neighbor of CBS4’s Justin Adams, said, “For us as a community, we felt our school was taken from us.” Sanders has watched and waited for this day. His son Sean will enter as a freshman at the newly-reimagined Montbello High School.

“I graduated as a Warrior. Now my son gets to graduate as a Warrior. To be able to have this…