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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo expects 200,000 people to move in over the next 25 or so years. Gotta go somewhere. The council and planning have thrown their hands up at MCPS' lack of effort to manage their end of it.[/quote]

They can limit building -&gt; housing crunch

[b]They can fund school facility needs[/b] -&gt; increased taxes or budget crunch

They can do neither -&gt; overcrowded schools

My guess is #3.  They don't really care about this aspect of education and haven't for a couple of decades.[/quote]

The approved six-year MCPS Capital Improvement Plan is $1.771 billion, including funding for the planning, design, and/or construction of 10 elementary school capacity projects, 3 middle school capacity projects, 4 high school capacity projects, and 11 major capital projects—5 at the elementary school level, 2 at the middle school level, and 4 at the high school level.

Oddly, OP still hasn't told us which school and which building project they're complaining about. Which is odd, because it's not possible to answer OP's questions without that information. Without it, all we know is that there is supposedly some Title 1 elementary school somewhere in Montgomery County which is over capacity and is near a site where a "huge new apartment complex" is supposed to be built.

For reference, the Title 1 elementary schools in 2023 are Arcola, Bel Pre, Brookhaven, Brown Station, Burnt Mills, Clopper Mill, Cresthaven, Capt. James Daly, Fairland, Gaithersburg, Galway, Georgian Forest, Greencastle, Harmony Hills, Highland, Jackson Road, JoAnn Leleck, Kemp Mill, Lake Seneca, New Hampshire Estates, Roscoe Nix, Oakview, Rolling Terrace, Sargent Shriver, South Lake, Stedwick, Strathmore, Summit Hall, Twinbrook, Viers Mill, Washington Grove, Watkins Mill, Weller Road, Wheaton Woods, Whetstone.

Of these Title 1 (in 2023) elementary schools, here are the ones that were over capacity in the fall of 2021: Burnt Mills (but a new addition will be finished in August 2023), Gaithersburg (but Harriet Tubman ES opened in August 2022), Greencastle (but a new addition will be finished in August 2025), JoAnn Leleck (Cresthaven and Roscoe Nix were supposed to get additions, but that didn't work; now there is a site selection process for a new grade 3-5 elementary school), Lake Seneca, Oakview, Sargent Shriver, South Lake (but there's an approved addition, which still might not be enough and then there might be boundary changes), Summit Hall (but Harriet Tubman ES opened in August 2022), Watkins Mill.

Does anyone know of a "huge new apartment complex" that is supposed to be built within the boundaries of JoAnn Leleck ES, Lake Seneca ES, Oakview ES, Sargent Shriver ES, South Lake ES, or Watkins Mill ES?

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