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[quote=Anonymous]I'm taking bits and pieces from multiple threads but I'm confused on what's going on.

It sounds like Option H is the main plan that MCPS and the County Council is pushing for.

The Damascus HS renovation is definitely going to happen.  But I'm not clear if the students there will be moved to a holding school or they will build another building on site, I think like what they did with Richard Montgomery.  Originally in another post someone said they will be another building on site.  But some of these recent posts from Damascus families sound like they thought they'd be going to Crown as a holding school.

Then Magruder isn't even on the CIP at all?  It's one of the oldest high school buildings in MCPS that had to close due to facilities issues in the last couple of years:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2019/12/03/after-water-main-break-magruder-high-closes-for-second-time-in-a-month/
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/06/01/magruder-high-closes-early-wednesday-due-to-broken-air-conditioning-unit/

And from what I heard their systems are archaic and hard to fix.

So is it MCPS has no money to renovate the current Wootton building AND Magruder.  Or is it they can just have cost savings by not renovating Wootton.

But then if they're not going to be able to renovate Wootton to be adequate to use, they will be sending Magruder students here as a holding school while their school is being renovated?  So there will be some money that needs to be put in the Wootton building either way right?

In the CIP, it says that buildings should be torn down to the studs or completely rebuilt by fifty years and have some maintenance in between.  But looking at this list, it looks like several schools jumped spots in the list:

Whetstone ES Facility Opened: 1968
Col. Zadok Magruder HS Facility Opened: 1970
Greenwood ES Facility Opened: 1970
Strathmore ES Facility Opened: 1970
Thomas S. Wootton HS Facility Opened: 1970
Watkins Mill ES Facility Opened: 1970
John T. Baker MS Facility Opened: 1971
Redland MS Facility Opened: 1971
Robert Frost MS Facility Opened: 1971
Summit Hall ES Facility Opened: 1971
Cold Spring ES Facility Opened: 1972  ***On CIP for August 2031 Replacement
Fields Road ES Facility Opened: 1973
Piney Branch ES Facility Opened: 1973  ***On CIP for August 2031 Replacement
Belmont ES Facility Opened: 1974
Benjamin Banneker MS Facility Opened: 1974
Fallsmead ES Facility Opened: 1974
Fox Chapel ES Facility Opened: 1974
JoAnn Leleck ES at Broad Acres ES Revitalized/Modernized: 1974  ***On CIP for August 2026 Replacement
Stedwick ES Facility Opened: 1974
Diamond ES Facility Opened: 1975
DuFief ES Facility Opened: 1975
East Silver Spring ES Revitalized/Modernized: 1975
Ridgeview MS Facility Opened: 1975
Eastern MS Revitalized/Modernized: 1976  ***On CIP for August 2030 Replacement

And one could argue that High Schools would have higher priority because they serve a larger number of students.  Not to throw other schools under the bus but it looks like Cold Spring has seats available and that's with out of the area students coming in for the CES programs.  Where in the CIP the projected numbers for Cold Spring are:
2025-2026: Capacity: 481 Enrollment 367 Available space: 114
2026-2027: Capacity: 481 Enrollment 371 Available space: 110
2027-2028: Capacity: 481 Enrollment 365 Available space: 116
2028-2029: Capacity: 481 Enrollment 356 Available space: 125
2029-2030: Capacity: 481 Enrollment 362 Available space: 119
2030-2031: Capacity: 481 Enrollment 353 Available space: 128
After the renovation:
2031-2032: Capacity: 465 Enrollment 349 Available space: 116

Are they not only spending money on the school but also decreasing the spaces available in it?  And couldn't that money have been put towards a high school (either Magruder or Wootton) that would've served a larger group of students?[/quote]

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