Zumbro Education District

Zumbro Education District is a consortium made up of six southeastern Minnesota districts that provides specialty services to those districts. For its entire existence ZED has operated out of make-shift spaces not designed for the intended uses. In 2018 Wendel was hired to help plan a facility addition to house the Alternative Learning Center and other programs. During the planning of the addition project, it became apparent that a new facility designed to house all of the district’s functions in one building would be far more efficient and cost-effective.

The new facility houses all the ZED student program offerings including the Area Learning Center, Future/choices program (Setting IV), and Transition to Success in one building. Along with the district office additional office and meeting space for the full time and itinerant staff. Prior to construction of the new building, ZED was unable to provide many Career Tech Ed opportunities dues to lack of adequate space and equipment. The new facility includes state-of-the-art science lab, STEM lab and food occupations lab. Its proximity to KM High School will also allow students to take advantage a variety of more traditional shop classes.