New Middle School Proposed for BCC Cluster

Superintendent’s Recommendation on the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Cluster Roundtable Discussion Group

...I am recommending that Grade 6 students at Chevy Chase and North Chevy Chase elementary schools be reassigned to the middle school level as soon as a new middle school can be opened in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Cluster. To accomplish this, I am recommending that a site selection committee be formed in winter 2011 to identify a location for a new middle school in the Bethesda- Chevy Chase Cluster. This new middle school would provide the capacity needed to relieve Westland Middle School’s overutilization and enable the Grade 6 students from Chevy Chase and North Chevy Chase elementary schools to be assigned to a middle school. The site selection committee will include representatives from the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Cluster and MCPS Department of Facilities Management staff. The committee will be charged with identifying a suitable site for a new middle school in a centralized location...