National and State Register

Jamaica Primary School

Arapahoe County

Located in the Havana Park subdivision, the Jamaica Primary School was completed in 1958. Situated at the center of a neighborhood of mid-twentieth century Ranch houses, the school was originally designed as a small community school with eight classrooms for kindergarten through third grade students. 

Jamaica Primary School.

Jamaica Primary School.

The school was one of twenty-five new schools constructed by Aurora Public Schools between 1945 and 1970 as the district struggled to keep up with the city’s booming population. Twenty-one of these schools, including Jamaica Primary, were built by the Denver-based architectural firm of Atchison & Kloverstrom. The Jamaica Primary School features a flat-roofed, single-story design, irregular layout planned around a courtyard, steel-frame construction with brick facing, large bands of windows, minimal ornamentation, exterior doors to individual classrooms, and a multi-purpose room. Colorado Springs-based firm Lamar & Kelsey designed the small addition at the rear in 1970. Jamaica Primary School is locally significant in the area of Education and Architecture. The property meets the registration requirements outlined in the Colorado’s Mid-Century Schools, 1945-1970 Multiple Property Documentation Form.