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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here is a head scratcher look at the capacity projections for Seneca Valley. It is currently under capacity by 146 yet MCPS is spending money to do an expansion which will wait for it...make it under capacity by 1,280 in 2024.

[b]How is that not complete mismanagement of funds when schools further south and east are bursting at the seems. Clearly the trend is that fewer people want to live up near Seneca Valley and use their schools so why spend precious resources making it bigger when there is so much need elsewhere. Does one of the board members live up there or something?[/b][/quote]

The answer to your question is not difficult to find, PP. It's right here in the CIP:

[i]Seneca Valley High School
Capital Project: A revitalization/expansion project is scheduled
for this school with a completion date of September 2020.
An FY 2018 appropriation was approved to begin construction
for the project. Recently, a Career Readiness External Review
was conducted and provided recommendations to increase
the number of students prepared for employment
in high demand fields. Given this school
is under construction, there is an opportunity to
expand career technology education for students
living in the upcounty area. Therefore, the master
planned shell on the fourth floor was approved
for construction to accommodate additional career
technology education programs in this facility. An
FY 2019 appropriation was approved to continue
this revitalization/expansion project. An FY 2020
appropriation is recommended for construction
to accommodate the additional career technology
education programs. In order for this program to
remain on schedule, county and state funding must
be provided at the levels recommended in this CIP.

Planning Issue: Although a classroom addition
opened in September 2015 to accommodate the
overutilization at Clarksburg High School, student
enrollment at Clarksburg High School will continue
to exceed capacity by almost 800 students
by the end of the six-year CIP planning period.
Enrollment also is projected to exceed capacity at
Northwest High School by nearly 700 students.
The Seneca Valley High School service area is
adjacent to the Clarksburg and Northwest high
school service areas. A revitalization/expansion
project of Seneca Valley High School, scheduled for
completion in September 2020, will be designed
and constructed with a capacity for 2,581 students.
The enrollment at Seneca Valley High School
is projected to be 1,301 students by the end of
the six-year planning period. With a capacity of
2,581 seats, there will be approximately 1,280 
seats available to accommodate students from Clarksburg
and Northwest high schools when the project is complete.
Planning Study: A boundary study is approved to explore
the reassignment of Clarksburg and Northwest high school
students to Seneca Valley High School. As part of the boundary
study, middle school articulation patterns in the Seneca
Valley Cluster will be reviewed in order to evaluate utilizations
and articulation patterns, therefore Roberto Clemente
and Martin Luther King, Jr. middle schools will participate in
the boundary study. In order to minimize split articulations
among the three clusters, the superintendent recommends
expanding the scope of the boundary study to include all of
the middle schools in the Clarksburg and Northwest clusters
in addition to the middle schools in the Seneca Valley Cluster.
The boundary study will begin in late fall/early winter 2018
with Board action scheduled in November 2019.[/i]

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP20_Chap4_SenecaValley.pdf[/quote]

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