Open Letter to PWCS About CIP and Enrollment
November 19, 2012 — pwceducationreform
Tomorrow night the PWC School Board will participate in a work session on student enrollment and new school construction / expansion / renovation. The public is allowed to attend the meetings. The meeting will not be televised, and, as far as I can tell, there is no plan for minutes to be made available to the public.
Below are the issues I’d like to see addressed and questions I’d like to have answered. If there are additional issues you’d like discussed or questions you’d like answered, please let me know by commenting on our facebook page or here. I’ll publish them and share them with the school board and school division staff.
(1) 30 room addition at Potomac High School
A 30 room addition is currently being constructed at Potomac High School and is expected to open in the Fall of 2013. This addition will add 630 more seats to Potomac, bringing it’s capacity to 2,285 students from 1,655. In the Fall of 2013 Potomac is projected to have enrollment of 1,678 students. The opening of the new addition will leave Potomac HS approximately 600 students below capacity.
Potomac High School’s current boundaries are surrounded by Forest Park, Freedom, and Gar-Field, with parts of Hylton close by. Enrollment at those schools in the Fall of 2013 is projected to be as follows: