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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coolidge is also the largest square footage of any school in DCPS. 350,000 square feet is a lot of building. Every single system and structure in the building needs significant work. Nothing is in good shape.

However $160 million for 400 kids with no plan on how they might turn the school around is absolutely foolish.[/quote]

$160 million for 700-800 kids (MS / HS) would be a little more reasonable.  And it doesn't have to be a single combined school.  Roosevelt and MacFarland are just across from eachother.  DCPS could build two completely separate schools within the one building.  I suspect [b]the feasibility study[/b] is going through how to do that most reasonably.[/quote]

What feasibility study?[/quote]

I thought that's what DCPS is doing now, looking into Coolidge being renovated into Coolidge HS + New Ward 4 North MS, but I'm not sure where I heard that.  Maybe I'm wrong.  If they aren't, then they should.[/quote]

Nope. DCPS proceeding with making it another high school only. Some neighbors are pushing them to consider it as a co-location for North but no one has agreed and there is opposition from the Coolidge community and its alumni network (few students now but HUGE crowds turn out for football games in the fall).

At this point North Middle is a mirage, not a clue where it would be built.[/quote]

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