A cash-strapped Seattle School District is considering increasing rents or possibly selling a number of properties in the city including a former elementary school in Crown Hill now home to several non-profit educational organizations.

The district’s decision may also doom a planned green space in that neighborhood.

The Crown Hill School, a former elementary school between Holman Road Northwest and Northwest 92nd Street, is one of several Youth Family and Community Service Centers designated by the district for use supporting school-related programs. The schoolhouses several tenants including Small Faces Child Development Center, a non-profit childcare center catering to about 180 children. The development center, along with several other tenants including two dance studios, pay a subsidized rent to the district for use of the facility and the school board is now in the process of considering modifying the policy that determines that subsidy.

“The policy creates a discount for youth and family operations. The proposed change is to modify the discount,” said Ron English, deputy general counsel for the school district. The school district estimates that its typical subsidy for such centers is about 25 percent of market value. If such a discount exists for the Crown Hill School, those tenants, who now pay a combined $60,000 in rent annually, could see that figure quadruple.

“There’s no way the existing tenants could support that,” said Catherine Weatbrook, treasurer for the board of directors at Small Faces. Weatbrook said the district’s priorities had changed markedly in the last few months, in contrast with discussions last summer, where the district and Small Faces were close to an agreement that would have reaffirmed the long-term use of the facility.

“Basically they’re saying