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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blair isn't in its own cluster because the density in DTSS and TkPk fills it before you even get outside of the Beltway. This was a known thing when they moved it to its current location.

MCPS could have acquired the Adventist site in TkPk, used it for Northwood holding and then built a new high school there to alleviate Blair, but no. Or they could have bought the Discovery editing building on Kennett in DTSS to use for Northwood holding and turned that into an urban high school campus that would have alleviated Blair crowding and could have provided an alternative high school experience for kids who don't do well in huge suburban campus high schools like we build.

But instead they were pennywise and pound foolish and used Woodward for Northwood holding, meaning those kids are bused to North Bethesda for three years and don't even have sports fields or an auditorium.[/quote]

One thing that I’ve wondered about is what’s the plan for the high school renovations that are massively overdue as well as others coming due over the next decade. I believe Northwood was the holding school for years, but that’s not possible now Woodward will be unavailable and Crown will be filled in. Seems like Crown should become a new holding school to do Wootton and Magruder.

The oldest schools (25+) are built in:

Magruder - 1970
Wootton - 1970
QO - 1988
Sherwood - renovated 1991
Einstein - renovated 1997
Northwest - built 1998
Blair - built 1998
Kennedy - renovated 1999
Churchill - renovated 2001
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Hard to say, but they can sometimes build the new building on the field next to the school, then tear down the old building afterwards. That's what they did at Paint Branch and Wheaton.[/quote]

And they did this recently at Odessa Shannon MS too.[/quote]

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