New classrooms at three Denpasar schools reach 85% construction progress

In brief: A municipal inspection on 2 November 2026 put the overall progress of classroom construction at three Denpasar primary schools at about 85%. City officials expect the buildings to be finished in December, with the new space intended for use when the January 2027 semester begins.

The 85% figure covers the sites visited by the mayor

Denpasar Mayor I Gusti Ngurah Jaya Negara inspected work at SDN 19 Pemecutan in West Denpasar, SDN 14 Pemecutan in North Denpasar and SDN 13 Kesiman in East Denpasar. All three are public primary schools, and their classroom projects form part of the city's 2026 school-building programme.

The municipality described 85% as the general level of progress across the inspected works. It did not present that figure as a separate completion rate for each school, nor as a citywide measure. Other school construction projects are under way elsewhere in Denpasar, so the inspection result should not be applied to every campus in the programme.

More rooms could bring more pupils onto the morning shift

The expected benefit goes beyond the physical buildings. Denpasar's education office says the additional classrooms are intended to accommodate teaching groups and, ideally, allow pupils who currently attend morning and afternoon sessions to study in the morning. The education office has described this as an objective of the expansion. Timetables adopting that change at the three schools have not been confirmed.

Officials have set December 2026 as their construction target and January 2027 as the intended start of classroom use. Neither the municipal announcement nor the education office's report confirms that the new buildings have already been handed over for teaching. Families should therefore treat the dates as a plan subject to completion and school-level arrangements.

Parents considering a longer stay in Denpasar now have the names of the schools where additional classrooms are being built. They identify where facilities are being added, but say nothing definitive about vacancies or a child's eligibility to enrol. Admissions requirements, including any requirements relevant to foreign families, and the actual school-day schedule need to be established with the school or local education authority before a housing decision is based on the projected opening.