What elementary schools will Taylor be closing?
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Anonymous
I believe it was in one of the things to know emails - it said there would be a county-wide es boundary study next year and talked about some of the things it would look at, one of which was the paired es model. |
Anonymous
Me again. Actually the presentation was linked in one of the BOE emails. Here it is: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DQZQD568B9FD/$file/FY2027-2032%20CIP%20Spring%20Amendments%20260205%20PPT.pdf The first substantive slide says one of the purposes of the study is "to revisit the paired-school model." |
Anonymous
Cold spring ES is listed as a replacement project, the total cost is $59.55M listed on the FY2027 CIP PPT presented on 10/14/2025. |
Anonymous
About 30% of 200M. Wootton just needs to find the other 70% or so. City of Rockville? Bueller? |
Anonymous
Every dollar counts to save Wootton. They are going to Churchill anyways they can just merge with Wayside and Potomac. |
Anonymous
If they take back the old early elementary building that used to be part of Parkside ES that Acorn Hill Waldorf currently occupies, then there are many more options for construction available to them. Back in 2019, when they shelved the idea, they said they didn't want to build into the hillside, which is where they said they would have to dp it if they didn't just use the old, inadequate upper Parkside building. That, and the refusal to consider the whole property, was all to get the community either to take a slap-dash, on-the-cheap reno (echoes of SSIMS/SCES being created, themselves, in the late 90s from the old Blair HS building) with dissolution of the school between that smaller building and already overutilized HVES or to complain about it enough that MCPS could throw their hands up and say, "We tried!," enabling them to down-scope the whole SSIMS/SCES remediation. Of course, the latter happened, and they then further downscoped the SSIMS-only part, carving off several million to add size to HVES...a project they then abandoned as too expensive and difficult. Beware Greeks bearing "gifts." |
Anonymous
Except mearly every dollar saved there would be considered equally for any of the CIP projects needed in the MCPS portfolio, not directed solely to Wootton. That is, if the County Council didn't simply absconded with the funds for their other purposes. Impact-tax funding from new construction may need to go to a local school, but that could be offset from the much larger general fund portion of the CIP budget, and much which is so restricted might be assigned to, say, the completion of Crown, now that it would be serving the Wootton area, possibly including some of the current Cold Spring catchment. Or to some other capital expense they are doing anyway (HVAC replacements? Those seem to be needed all over.) Depends on how they define/see what would be local from that impact tax perspective. |
Anonymous
Not sure those projects are accurate. TBES was has been over capacity for a while. Their boundary did not change after Rustin was built. Now all of a sudden, it's under capacity by over 100? Hmm.. |
Anonymous
You do know that you are talking crazy. |
Anonymous
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ES in the Wootton cluster are waay under capacity.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/planning/fy2027/CIP27_Chapter4_Wootton-Cluster.pdf |
Anonymous
Enrollment is on the decline all over the county. |
Anonymous
Which part? |
Anonymous
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Dufief 100% will be closed. It is the second least utilized ES. Once you factor in their special education students who do not live within boundaries, it becomes by far the single most underutilized ES.
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Anonymous
How long until Westland parents start filling DCUM with complaints over their school being closed or rezoned? |
Anonymous
Barely a decline. |