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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fox Hall elementary makes no sense unless it is part of a larger plan to shifting feeder elementary schools away from Deal to Hardy, Wells and McFarland. It’s the only thing that makes sense. If I was DCPS I would do it slowly so you are not fighting all of NW all at once.

If you are in NW do not be surprised when your middle is changes in the next few years. [/quote]

Foxhall and MacArthur actually mesh with what the Crowding Working Group recommended. Four new schools: a high school, a middle and two new elementaries, one in the southern part of the ward and one in the northern. With the new high school Hardy rolls out of Jackson Reed and in 10 years instead of being 3,000 students JR is 2,000. All they need to do now is add a middle school somewhere in the Deal boundaries so they can split Deal, and an elementary somewhere near Lafayette so they can alleviate the crowding there. [/quote]

Though it seems like it'd be better if the Foxhall ES/Macarthur was closer to the population centers on Mass/Wisc. But DC gave away Guy Mason and Jelleff and screwed up ellington. [/quote]

MacArthur yes, Foxhall no.

Foxhall is meant to take pressure off of Key and Mann, and possibly over time allow some adjustment of the Janney and Eaton boundaries where they abut Mann to take some pressure off of those schools. It's actually exactly where it needs to be, it's a spot that had a DCPS school for 60 years. Over half of the kids at Key now are closer to Foxhall than they are to Key.

MacArthur is meant to be Hardy's destination school. Ideally it would be close to Hardy so that anyone who can get to Hardy can get to Mac, and families who have kids split between the two can still have their kids travel together. But there just isn't a site there. In 2014, before the renovation, Frumin suggested moving Ellington rather than renovating it and using that building for a high school -- which is also the historic way those two buildings were used. That plan was shot down by Vincent Gray. Goulet was working for Gray at the time. [/quote]

Is Frumin still in favor of moving Ellington?  If so, he should be open about that.  [/quote]

That ship sailed when Ellington was renovated. The city put $200+ million into a building with state-of-the-art performing arts spaces. It cost about five times per pupil what a general high school renovation like Wilson cost. Were Ellington to move some other site would have to be similarly equipped. And the Ellington building would have to be redone, it only has about 500 classroom seats now. The renovations could easily be $300 million and if land needs to be acquired the whole project could top half a billion. The time to do it was before the renovation.

By contrast, the renovation of the MacArthur school is going to be less than $50 million. [/quote]

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