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[quote=Anonymous]PTA meeting at 6pm Tuesday night at RMHS on this topic:
[quote]PTSA Monthly Meeting and Information Session

Tuesday, December 18, 2019, RM Cafeteria

*Special* 6pm-7pm Presentation on Overcrowding at RMHS by Essie McGuire, Executive Director in the COO's office. (This an update to previous announcements indicating Mr. Monteleone would give the presentation.) In response to our PTSA request for updated student population projections and the proposed solutions to this overcrowding, Ms. McGuire will share information from the Chief Operating Officer’s (COO) office about RM’s current capacity, projected enrollment, and MCPS’s vision for dealing with our capacity as it relates to building the Crown Farm high school. She will be taking questions after a 15 min. presentation.

RMHS is expected to go over 120% of capacity next year. We were anticipating this occuring in 2022 and want to know exactly what is happening. As we know, MCPS was going to build an addition to alleviate the overcrowding, but last year the funding was eliminated and we were informed that the new school to be built in Crown Farm would alleviate the overcrowding at RM without any explanation as to how.

When RM's student population goes over 120% of capacity, all new development in the City of Rockville will go into moratorium due to the City's Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. Councilmember Mark Pierzchala has asked for the Mayor and Council to consider raising the 120% of capacity limit to 150% for development in two areas -- Rockville Town Square and South Pike. Mayor Newton has scheduled a public hearing for this issue on January 7th. Any students who would live in the multi-family development in Rockville Town Center will attend schools in the RM Cluster. Any students living in the proposed Twinbrook Quarter development in South Pike could attend schools in the RM or Walter Johnson Cluster.

[The Mayor and Council will be having a work session on this issue on Mon. Dec. 17 during their regular meeting which begins at 7pm. We expect a report on RM's overcrowding at this meeting. For complete information on this agenda item, visit the Mayor and Council's agenda here: http://www.rockvillemd.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172018-5441 on the "Work Session on Potential Amendments to the Public Schools Test of the Adequate Public Facilities Standards (APFS) and Comprehensive Transportation Review (CTR)"]

We are in the process of gathering as much information as possible so that parents, teachers, and students can advocate for our school. [/quote][/quote]

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