Starr Recommends New Middle School for 2017 Opening

Superintendent Joshua Starr that he will recommend the second Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster middle school be funded and open in August 2017.

Starr wrote in a boundary recommendation for the B-CC cluster that the school on  is needed to relieve overcrowding at and that he will include the project in his 2013-18 capital improvement recommendations.

Next, the Board of Education will hold a work session on Starr's CIP recommendations on Nov. 2 and host public hearings Nov. 10 and 14, , MCPS's director of long-range planning. The board will vote on whether to approve the projects Nov. 17, Crispell said.

The schools for the middle school in September, finding two potential designs most preferable. However, MCPS is yet to release the feasibility study's findings, and Dennis Cross, project manager for the middle school, said in an e-mail that the district doesn't have a timeline for when the report will be made public.

At a meeting in September, architect Paul Falkenbury of Samaha Associates .

Throughout the feasibility-study process, residents of Rock Creek Hills have questioned MCPS's transparency and honesty, arguing that the park site is too small to house a school. Earlier this month, the Rock Creek Hills Citizens Association voted to continue its opposition to the construction of the school.

In September, the state's Open Meetings Compliance Board ruled that  during the site-selection process for the school.