After the Seattle School Board voted to approve the final recommendations for capacity management and effectively close schools across the city, design teams are now being formed as part of the next steps of the district's Capacity Management Plan.

A Programmatic Design Team is being formed for each site directly impacted by the proposed closures and program relocations. Additional teams will support the students and staff at the programs that are discontinued.

In West Seattle this includes Cooper Elementary School, which will be closed, and Pathfinder K-8, which will be relocated to the Cooper building.

The school district began to address imbalances in classroom capacity across the city as it faced a $24 million deficit.