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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw an interesting post elsewhere. If enrollment is down in the county, MCPS could choose to open Crown as a new high school (while keeping Wootton open) and use Woodward as the holding school instead.

Wootton and Crown are 4 miles apart but Woodward and WJ are only 1 mile apart, so students can easily be zoned to either school. WJ is underenrolled in the recommended plan for the Woodward boundary study. Students could be shifted to Churchill, RM, etc who could then shift students to Wootton/Crown in order to alleviate the current WJ overcrowding and help fill both Wootton and Crown.

Another question on the same topic, why can Woodward open causing WJ to be underenrolled, but it's not ok to open Crown and have that school be underenrolled?[/quote]

Good points by other people, but also, they would need to find the money to make Wootton habitable for this scenario.

They would need to rehabilitate Wootton some if they decide to use it as a holding school, but that can be on a longer timeline and changed based on the CIP plan that the county will need to fund.

Are we sure there's a school that's ready to be sent to a holding school by 2027-2028? Otherwise the prospective holding school would sit empty for some time and it seems more efficient for that to be a school in need of repairs / rehabilitation rather than a brand new school or rebuilt school.[/quote]

They use FY28 (2027-28 school year) to work on the empty current Wootton building to prep it for holding with both scope and cost considerably lower than they would be if they instead slated Wootton for renovation (beginning in FY34/2033-34 school year, after Magruder) for long-term use by the one HS community.  Damascus would be the first to occupy the old facility as a holding school beginning in FY29, folllowed by Magruder in FY32.  Instead of waiting for Wootton for another two years, then, whichever other school is next in line could start using the holding facility in FY34.

That's from last fall's CIP presentation, with current Wootton substituting for new Crown as the holding facility.[/quote]

Damascus will be rebuilt onsite. Who will use it then? Wait until 2031? I think it’s more likely MCPS sells it for profit. 
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Is an on-site Damascus renovation in the requested CIP?  Because the presentation pointed pretty clearly to the time and financial savings of having it utilize a holding facility.

If Damascus stays on site during construction (and we've heard loud voices both for and against that), then Magruder could begin at the holding facility in its place, moving everyone else up in the queue.[/quote]

No, the presentation slide shows the same cost for Damascus with or without holding school ( which doesn’t much sense, but it is what was presented).  Last meeting Taylor announced Damascus will be rebuilt onsite as his recommendation. 
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