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Mayor Adrian Fenty, Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Deputy Mayor for Education Victor Reinoso
Renew, Revitalize, Reorganize: school plan presented to councilmembers
November 28, 2007

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Renew, Revitalize, Reorganize:
Improving the quality of academic programming across DCPS

Goals

  • Provide comprehensive school programs across the city (art, music, PE, librarians, counselors)
  • Provide access to specialized programs across the city gifted and talented, arts-focused, Montessori, STEM, model early childhood)
  • Establish logical, coordinated feeder patterns that allow for consistency and collaboration through the grade progression. (Standardization within feeder patterns, flexibility across feeder patterns.)
  • Maintain walkability for elementary school students
  • Phase out separate special needs schools to better serve students in inclusion settings.
  • Increases ace for early childhood classrooms (3 and 4 year olds)
  • More students in modernized buildings sooner
  • Retain more students at the middle grades, through PK-8s and specialized middle school programs
  • Direct resources into teaching and learning - not maintaining excess space.

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
# of buildings 143 121
Total square feet 15 million 12.8 million

Square Footage per Student by Ward

Ward 1

Highlights/Proposed Programs

  • Gifted and Talented program at GarnetPatterson
  • Fine arts focus at Bancroft
  • Bell and Lincoln unify into one 6-12
  • Grade configuration becomes consistent PK-5.
  • Fully enroll new building at Cleveland.

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 341 295
# of schools 15 12
Grade configuration Mix of PK-5 and PK-6 PK-5

Buildings Proposed for Closure

  5 Year Enrlmnt
Decline 		Rdg/Math % Proficient Likely Receiving Schools (order reflects current enrollment patterns)
Bruce-Monroe (Relocate to Parkview) 32% 41/40 Parkview, Tubman, Raymond
Gage-Eckington 35% 35/21 Cleveland, Emery, Seaton
Meyer 49% 37/17 Tubman, Reed, H.D. Cooke

Ward 2

Highlights/Proposed Programs

  • Francis PK-8 feeding into School Without Walls.
  • Replicate Peabody School Reggio-Emilia model at Scott Montgomery for 3 and 4 year olds.
  • Differentiated Learning Lab School & Professional Development Center at HydeAddison

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 283 206
# of schools 12 10
Grade configuration Mix of PK-5 and PK-6 PK-5

Buildings Proposed for Closure

  5 Year Enrlmnt
Decline 		Rdg/Math % Proficient Likely Receiving Schools (order reflects current enrollment patterns)
Shaw JHS 35% 20/25 Garnet-Patterson
Stevens 28% 46/26 Widely dispersed (current enrollment comes from across the city)

Ward 3

Highlights

  • All elementary schools become PK-5
  • Oyster-Adams continues as a PK-8 cluster school

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 145 145
# of schools 10 10
Grade configuration Mix of PK-5 and PK-6 PK-5

No Buildings Proposed for Closure

Ward 4

Highlights

  • Entire feeder pattern adopts a PK-8 model (Lafayette and Shepherd become PK-5 and continue to feed into Deal).
  • Powell and MacFarland become a PS-8 cluster, with Powell serving PS-3rd and MacFarland 4-8.
  • Differentiated Learning Lab School & Professional Development Center at HydeAddison
  • Fully enroll newly modernized buildings at Barnard and Brightwood.
  • Whittier-Coolidge high tech 6-12 campus

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 287 264
# of schools 17 15
Grade configuration Mix of PK-, PK-6, PK-8 PK-8

Buildings Proposed for Closure

  5 Year Enrlmnt Decline Rdg/Math % Proficient Likely Receiving Schools (order reflects
current enrollment patterns)
Clark 29% 47/48 Barnard, West, Powell
Rudolph 50% 33/30 Barnard, Whittier

Ward 5

Highlights

  • Entire feeder pattern adopts PK-8 model
  • New arts-focused PS-8 at Taft, in partnership with Filmore.
  • Emery becomes STEM PK-8 feeding McKinley.
  • Langdon becomes STEM PK-8
  • Webb and Wheatley become a Montessori cluster, with Wheatley serving PS-3rd and Webb 4-8 (phased in over 3-4 years).
  • Fully enroll newly modernized Noyes.

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 378 302
# of schools 22 15
Grade configuration Mix of PK-, PK-6, PK-8 PK-8

Buildings Proposed for Closure

  5 Year Enrlmnt Decline Rdg/Math % Proficient Likely Receiving Schools (order reflects
current enrollment patterns)
Bunker Hill (pending modernization of Brookland) 29% 61/60 Brookland
Burroughs 21% 56/42 Taft (new arts focused PS-8)
Cook, J.F. 22% 12/14 Walker-Jones, Emery, Montgomery
Slowe 64% 36/16 Taft, Noyes, Langdon,
Young 39% 27/10 Browne PS-8
Backus MS 61% 15/8 Taft
MM Washington SHS 20% 32/21 Phelps, McKinley

Ward 6

Hiqhlights

  • Montessori program at Payne.
  • Reggio-Emilia early childhood program at Payne
  • Amidon and Jefferson high tech campuses
  • Eliot-Hine and Jefferson feeder schools all become PK-5.
  • Maintain Capitol Hill Cluster
  • New Walker-Jones to open in 2009 as part of NW1 project.

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 275 233
# of schools 20 17
Grade configuration Mix of PK-6, PK-8 Jefferson and Eliot-Hine feeder patterns: PK-5.
Buildings Proposed for Closure
  5 Year Enrlmnt
Decline 		Rdg/Math % Proficient Likely Receiving Schools (order reflects
current enrollment patterns)
Bowen 21% 37/24 Amidon
Gibbs 45% 20/12 Miner, Young
Hine MS 42% 21/18 Eliot

Ward 7

Highlights/Proposed Programs

  • Gifted and Talented program at Kelly Miller
  • Merritt becomes STEM middle school, consolidating student bodies of Merritt and Ron Brown
  • Design new Woodson to include a STEM strand, ultimately fed by Merritt.
  • Woodson swings into Ron Brown during construction.

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 269 263
# of schools 22 20
Grade configuration Mix of PK-5, PK-6 PK-5

Buildings Proposed for Closure

  5 Year Enrlmnt Decline Rdg/Math % Proficient Likely Receiving Schools (order reflects
current enrollment patterns)
Ron Brown (building used as swing space for Woodson) 49% 20/12 Merritt
Smothers 21% 31/20 Aiton, Benning, Nalle, Plummer

Ward 8

Hiqhlights

  • Reggio-Emilia early childhood program at Malcolm X
  • Gifted and Talented middle school program
  • Fully enroll modernized Patterson

Key Facts

  Current Proposed
Feet2/student 286 221
# of schools 26 22
Grade configuration Mix of PK-3, PK-5, PK-6, PK-8 PK-5

Buildings Proposed for Closure

  5 Year Enrlmnt Decline Rdg/Math % Proficient Likely Receiving Schools (order reflects current enrollment patterns)
Douglas NA NA CHOICE Academy relocates to Hamilton (along with MS CHOICE currently at Taft). Transition Academy is divided among several schools to allow appropriate inclusion. .
Green (pending modernization of Turner) 35% 24/18 Turner, Malcolm X,
P.R. Harris 13% 22/15 Patterson, Hendley, Leckie, Hart MS
Wilkinson 37% 22/15 Moten

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