New Rockville Elementary School to Cost $35.4 Million

Rockville’s Richard Montgomery cluster is one step closer to getting a new elementary school, following a decision by the Montgomery County Board of Education....
...The construction phase of the school is expected to begin in January and be finished by August 2017.
The school is projected to cost $35.4 million and will be part of the Richard Montgomery Cluster, along with Beall, College Gardens, Ritchie Park and Twinbrook elementary schools; Julius West Middle School; and Richard Montgomery High School.
For now, the school is called Richard Montgomery Elementary School No. 5, but another name will likely be chosen before it opens.
The building would initially be built to accommodate about 600 students, but could be expanded to handle up to 740 in kindergarten through fifth grades...

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Starr recommends 7 new addition projects, 3 new schools

MCPS Capital Budget News: 

Superintendent Starr recommends six new elementary school and one middle school addition projects.

Seven new classroom addition projects at Arcola, Bethesda, Highland View, North Chevy Chase, Rosemary Hills and Wood Acres elementary schools and at Julius West Middle School.

Superintendent Starr recommends two new elementary schools and one new middle school.

New middle school in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster and new elementary schools in the Northwest and Richard Montgomery clusters.

Gazette: Rockville asks school system for school only at Hungerford

City council offers help in relocating Children’s Resource Center

by Sean Patrick Norris

Rockville is supporting a group of parents who want a school, and nothing more, to be built on West Edmonston Drive...

4 Story Elementary School for Rockville

Gazette:  Rockville residents reach a stalemate in plans for new school site

...All four options include building a 740-student elementary school on the 7-acre property...