Mcps waiting in line for renovation

[Anonymous]

So many voices around saying that their school needs to be renovated asap due to safety or mold concerns . Due to mcps budget restraints, which school should be number 1, number 2 and number 3 to be renovated first?

[Anonymous]

It's usually starts west or southwest and moves up west of 270 then over to the northeast-ish then down county. Follw the $ zip codes with $. W = white. W= wealth(ier). W= wacked.

[Anonymous]

SSIMS (old Blair) should be number one. The deteriorating facility has been the subject of numerous news stories over the decades. (The old high school auditorium had in fact been abandoned for many years since there was no money for upkeep.)

MCPS will still renovate the old Blair/SSIMS building for use as a permanent holding facility, to be used whilst other schools are being renovated.

[Anonymous]

I thought Eastern was pretty high up the list. Weren’t they going to build the new building on the field behind the current school and then tear down the existing structure?

I think the issue with schools like Eastern is they don’t want to invest any money in anything beyond basic maintenance because it needs to be replaced, but then as construction is delayed they become uninhabitable with nowhere to go.

[Anonymous]

Here's the ordered list they presented at the CIP work session:

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DN5UHV7C3190/$file/FCI%20Scores%20by%20School.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Eastern was pretty high up the list. Weren’t they going to build the new building on the field behind the current school and then tear down the existing structure?

I think the issue with schools like Eastern is they don’t want to invest any money in anything beyond basic maintenance because it needs to be replaced, but then as construction is delayed they become uninhabitable with nowhere to go.

Kids still wearing coats in the building there?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/853239.page

[Anonymous]

So is the point of this thread to pit school communities against one another?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is the point of this thread to pit school communities against one another?

You realize we are all in the same county with one budget?

Don’t want to think about your neighbors? Get your own funding.

[Anonymous]

Damascus is in dire need of renovation/rebuild. MCPS has been saying for a decade that it will happen. Yet, it keeps getting pushed back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SSIMS (old Blair) should be number one. The deteriorating facility has been the subject of numerous news stories over the decades. (The old high school auditorium had in fact been abandoned for many years since there was no money for upkeep.)

MCPS will still renovate the old Blair/SSIMS building for use as a permanent holding facility, to be used whilst other schools are being renovated.

SSIMS and Eastern need to be the first two. And SSIMS should be renovated in place, not turned into a holding facility. Excellent arguments here (https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/11/19/five-reasons-mcpss-plan-for-silver-spring-doesnt-add-up/) for why the holding school conversion plan does not hold up to scrutiny. It would cost $40 million more to convert SSIMS.SCES into holding schools than it would to renovate them in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's usually starts west or southwest and moves up west of 270 then over to the northeast-ish then down county. Follw the $ zip codes with $. W = white. W= wealth(ier). W= wacked.

Ignore the lying troll.
Wootton HS and Cold Spring (W elem) are two of the most overdue for renovations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's usually starts west or southwest and moves up west of 270 then over to the northeast-ish then down county. Follw the $ zip codes with $. W = white. W= wealth(ier). W= wacked.

Ignore the lying troll.
Wootton HS and Cold Spring (W elem) are two of the most overdue for renovations

Really, Cold Spring should be closed. All of the Wootton cluster elementaries are well under capacity, and projected to keep decreasing. That money could be better spent on other projects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's usually starts west or southwest and moves up west of 270 then over to the northeast-ish then down county. Follw the $ zip codes with $. W = white. W= wealth(ier). W= wacked.

Ignore the lying troll.
Wootton HS and Cold Spring (W elem) are two of the most overdue for renovations

Really, Cold Spring should be closed. All of the Wootton cluster elementaries are well under capacity, and projected to keep decreasing. That money could be better spent on other projects.

Absolutely true.

[Anonymous]

The cold spring area can afford private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the ordered list they presented at the CIP work session:

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DN5UHV7C3190/$file/FCI%20Scores%20by%20School.pdf

Does the top of the list mean that's the first to be renovated, and so on?

And what does orange highlighting mean?