A seventh Guam Department of Education school has made the grade.

GDOE announced Carbullido Elementary School in Barrigada passed its recent inspection conducted by the Department of Public Health and Social Services. 

School principal, Dr. Lisa Cooper-Nurse thanked the department's facilities and maintenance division, Barrigada Mayor June Blas, Vice Mayor Jessie Bautista, and the mayor's staff, along with UMS Heavy Equipment Rental and SK Logistics for their help in getting the facility inspection ready. 

KUAM News spoke with Cooper-Nurse earlier today to discuss what it took to ensure the campus did not fail the inspection.  

“We returned back again to our public health inspection checklist, and we had to reprioritize what our needs were," she said. "Then, of course, the communication with the facilities and maintenance division as to what our needs were–completing our preliminary damage assessments and then just starting the work as the school."

"One of the advantages we had was that we didn’t have summer school that we hosted that year," Cooper-Nurse said. "So, it really gave us more time that our staff had to focus on being able to prepare for the Public Health inspections. So, with that, we just prioritized we conducted several self-inspection checklists throughout the summer to just determine where we were at if our grade improved, if there were areas of demerits of weaknesses and of course address them if we could and then moved on from there.” 

Carbullido Elementary now joins six other schools that have since passed inspection. That includes Inalahan Elementary, John F. Kennedy High, Merizo Martyrs Memorial, Untalan Middle, Talo'fo'fo' Elementary, and Tiyan High. 

GDOE officials are scheduled to go before the legislative oversight committee on education this Friday to discuss the status of the school inspections and sanitary permits among other topics. 

The oversight hearing is set for 5:30 p.m., Friday at the Guam Congress building.