Kalamazoo Public Schools has been a busy and exciting district over the past two years. We have worked in conjunction with pa ... rtners throughout the county to add the nationally recognized OWL Curriculum to our pre-school classrooms. We have increased the number of kindergarten students in full-day kindergarten from 176 in 2007-2008 to 883 students in 2008- 2009, adding 370,000 additional instructional hours for these students. We have added a dual language school, El Sol Elementary, and a middle school alternative learning program. An 85 million dollar bond passed by voters in 2006. read more