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Ward 5 Community Meeting Update

We have enjoyed working with parents, staff, and community members over the past year on the Ward 5 Great Schools Initiative. 

On Tuesday, March 6, at McKinley Tech, we revealed grade configurations for middle grades targeted to open in August 2013. 

Meeting attendees learned about the three options targeted to open in August 2013: PS-8 International Baccalaureate Education Campus at Browne EC; Arts & Language Integration Stand-Alone 6-8 Middle School at Brookland; Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) focus middle school opening inside McKinley Tech. 

Download the presentation from the March 6, 2012 meeting »

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About the Initiative

Quality elementary, middle, and high school programs provide the skills and experiences students need to be successful in college, career and life.  Ensuring that families have quality middle school options is important to DCPS. This year, we have engaged parents and the community in Ward 5 to identify how to best support and strengthen our Ward 5 middle grade options. 

In early November, 492 families gave us feedback on possible school configurations.  This graph illustrates the combination of schools preferred by parents in Ward 5.

We listened.  Below are highlights from our proposal (presented at Langdon EC Wednesday, November 16, 2011) to provide 1180 middle grade seats in Ward 5 in SY2013-14

We are interested in receiving your feedback around these proposed middle grades options. This feedback can be specific to the three proposed middle grades options described above or general feedback around the overall options for middle grades in Ward 5 for SY 2013-14.

If you are interested in additional information about these proposals, you can review materials posted on the web including:

 

Past Parent Meetings

. Noyes Brookland Burroughs Langley
Your meeting date is... 10/25/2011 11/1/2011 10/24/2011 10/31/2011
Your meeting location is...  Noyes Brookland Langdon  Langley
Your meeting time is... 8:00 - 9:00am 8:00 - 9:00am 6:00 - 7:00pm  6:00-7:00pm
 
  Browne Wheatley Langdon Marshall
Your meeting date is... 11/1/2011 10/26/2011 10/24/2011 10/27/2011
Your meeting location is... Brown Wheatley Langdon  Marshall
Your meeting time is... 5:30-6:30pm 5:30 -6:30pm 6:00-7:00pm 4:45 - 5:30pm

Ward 5 Proposed Grade Configuration Presentation

Ward 5 Great Schools Initiative Meeting on Nov. 16, 2011 Notes

Download the notes from the community meeting on Sept. 29, 2011.

Download the slide presentation from the community meeting.

Inside DCPS Highlights.


           

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