'Severe' Crowding Projected for Arcola, Forest Knolls Elementary Schools
Arcola and Forest Knolls are among 12 schools included in a study slated to begin in January.
Montgomery County Public Schools will attempt to explore ways to address overcrowding problems in a new study of 12 elementary schools in the Downcounty Consortium. Arcola Elementary School and Forest Knolls Elementary School in Wheaton are two of four schools with the "most severe" space shortages, according to a report from MCPS Superintendent Joshua Starr to the Board of Education. Arcola introduced portable classrooms for the 2012-2013 school year, angering the neighborhood's residents and the parents of students when the portables arrived to the school's front lawn over the summer. Starr's memo shows the gap between capacity and projected enrollment at Arcola: Arcola Elementary School opened in August 2007 with a capacity of 434 …
In this Article:
Avocado
10:07 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
How could their predictions of the number of students be so wrong?? When were the pre-building predictions made? I think there needs to be an investigation of that to make sure those who made the predictions were doing their job and not just guessing randomly! It would have been cheaper to build the schools the right size to begin with! more ›