Brighton Standard Blade

Brighton Summerfest a highlight to a sunny weekend.
Brighton’s Carmichael Park was filled with community information, music, food and games June 6 as Summerfest returned to kick off the city’s summer.

Brighton Summerfest a highlight to a sunny weekend Brighton’s Carmichael Park was filled with community information, music, food and games June 6 as Summerfest returned to kick off the city’s summer.

Reminder for 27J families: the district's online boundary lookup tool has NOT yet been updated to reflect the new attendance maps approved this month. The updated tool won't go live until later this year, before open enrollment opens Dec. 1.

In the meantime, here's what Education Editor Suzie Glassman reported about which schools see the biggest shifts when the changes take effect in fall 2027:

27J's new boundaries: relief for some schools, cuts for PV School boundaries in district 27J will shift by fall 2027, accommodating new schools and easing overcrowding, but also reducing Prairie View High’s enrollment significantly. Families await updated tools.

Most drivers pass it without realizing it's there. Behind a low brick wall off the Brighton High School parking lot, a 54-year-old pool quietly serves the high school swim teams, the Brighton Bullfrogs club, Boy Scouts working on merit badges, and a handful of 27J employees who swim before work.

Now 27J leaders are weighing what to do with it. A district official told the board in April that replacing the building could cost up to $30 million — and that the swim team was the only group using it. The swim community pushed back fast.

Inside the building: cracked walls, peeling diving-well covers, doorless shower stalls. Also: scholarship swimmers, state finalists, kids who say this is the only team that ever felt like home.

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For many Brighton swimmers, an aging pool is their only home Drive past Brighton High School and you won’t see the pool behind the walls, home to the Bullfrogs swim club, which welcomes swimmers year-round despite aging facilities and uncertain future.