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New Middle School on Euclid St Community Working Group Meet-and-Greet

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On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, DCPS hosted a meet-and-greet for members of the New Middle School on Euclid St Community Working Group (CWG) – the first in a series of planning meetings for the new school that will open at 800 Euclid St NW. (For more details about the new school, check out our posts about the FY25 budget, the December 2024 community engagement kick-off event, and the CWG member application process.) 

The CWG is composed of 23 representatives, including parents, community members, and school staff. The group will meet regularly over the next three years until the school opens in School Year 2028-2029. The finalized list of members will be posted here, on the School Planning Blog, in the coming weeks so that community members know who to contact with questions and ideas.  

The next CWG meeting will be held virtually on March 12, 2025. A recording of the meeting and all meeting materials will be publicly available and posted to this blog. If you have questions about the new middle school, please email our team at dcps.planning@k12.dc.gov.  

Upcoming changes to school locations

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Swing Spaces Locations: School Year 2025-2026  

During a modernization, some schools are temporarily relocated to a “swing space” location. In School Year 2025-2026, the seven schools listed below will be in swing spaces. For more information, visit the DCPS Facilities website. 

School  Swing Space – Temporary Location  Swing Space Address – Temporary Location  
Brent ES  Meyer  2501 11th St NW, Washington DC 20001  
Burroughs ES  Burroughs modulars 1820 Monroe St NE, Washington DC 20018 
JO Wilson ES  
(moving in January 2025)		Upper Spingarn Field modulars 850 26th St NE, Washington DC 20002  
King ES V Street Anacostia 1409 V St SE, Washington DC 20020 
Malcolm X ES at Green  Davis  4430 H St SE, Washington DC 20019  
Thomas ES  Kenilworth  1300 44th St NE, Washington DC 20019  
Tubman ES  Old Banneker  800 Euclid St NW, Washington DC 20001 

Please note: Drew ES was previously scheduled to relocate to a Swing Space in School Year 2025-2026. On October 21, 2024, the Drew ES community received notification that their relocation to a Swing Space will begin in School Year 2026-2027 instead. For more information, refer to this letter to the Drew community. 

Classroom Relocations: School Year 2025-2026 

To alleviate overutilization, classrooms can be temporarily relocated to another location. In School Year 2025-2026, Bancroft Elementary School will relocate its PK3 and PK4 classrooms to the Sharpe Health building. For more information, refer to this letter to the Bancroft community. 

School  Temporary Location  Address – Temporary Location  
Bancroft ES  Sharpe Health4300 13th St NW, Washington DC 20011

Completed Modernizations: School Year 2025-2026

Three schools will return to their permanent location, upon the completion of a modernization or small capital improvement, in School Year 2025-2026. For more information, visit the DCPS Facilities website. 
 

School  Permanent Address 
Truesdell EC 800 Ingraham St NW, Washington, DC 20011 
Oyster Adams
(Adams campus, serving grades 4-8, only) 		2020 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20009 
Browne EC
(moving in December 2024) 		850 26th St NE, Washington, DC 20002 

New DCPS Middle School: Kick-Off Meeting Recap

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On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, DC Public Schools (DCPS) hosted a kick-off meeting about the new middle school DCPS will open in School Year 2028-2029. (For details, check out our posts about the FY25 budget,  an opportunity to join the Community Working Group, or a recap of engagement in the feeder schools.)  We’re grateful to everyone who attended! 

The event, held at Shaw Neighborhood Library, attracted a full house, with about 35 community members plus representatives from DCPS. The group participated in visioning exercises for the new school, explored the results of the community survey, and asked questions about plans for the new school. At this meeting, the application for the New MS on Euclid St Community Working Group (CWG) was released. You can learn more about the CWG here. The CWG application will be open until January 15, 2025, and can be found here: https://bit.ly/newdcpscwg.
 
Meeting materials from the event can be found here – English, Spanish, Chinese, Amharic

New Middle School on Euclid St Community Working Group (CWG) Application

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DCPS is opening a new middle school in School Year 2028-2029 at 800 Euclid St NW. (For details, check out our posts about the FY25 budget,  the community survey launched last month or a recap of engagement in the feeder schools.)   

As part of the opening of the new middle school, a Community Working Group (CWG) will be formed. In opening schools in recent years, DCPS has consistently formed CWGs to serve in an advisory role during planning.  Members of the CWG for the new middle school on Euclid St will have three primary roles:  

  1. Help share updates on the planning of the new school to members of the community they represent.   
  1. Collect general and specific feedback from members of the community they represent.   
  1. Based on collected feedback, provide insight into the priorities of prospective students, family members, and community members during CWG meetings.   

DCPS is looking for parents and caregivers, school staff, and community members to represent their communities on the New Middle School on Euclid St Community Working Group (CWG). To learn more and apply click here (English), here (Spanish), here (Chinese) and here (Amharic). The CWG application deadline is January 15, 2025, DCPS will work with principals and community groups to identify CWG members. Presentation materials from all meetings will be publicly available and posted to this blog.  

If you have any questions, reach out to dcps.planning@k12.dc.gov.

New DCPS middle school : fall engagement recap

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This fall, DC Public Schools (DCPS) began public engagement on the new middle school that will open in School Year 2028-2029 (for more information about the new middle school, check out our posts about the FY25 budget and the community survey launched last month). This initial engagement has focused on schools with geographic feeder rights to the new middle school: Cleveland ES, Garrison ES, and Seaton ES.  

Staff members from the DCPS School Planning team talked to students and families at Back to School Nights at all three schools, attended the Cleveland Literacy Night on November 19, and participated in the Garrison Fall Festival and Seaton’s outdoor movie night on October 25. Families asked thoughtful questions, and we heard plenty of enthusiasm from families who would like to stay at their elementary school through 5th grade and attend the new middle school together. 

Next up, join us at the Shaw Library on December 3 for a public kick-off event! Register here: bit.ly/NewMS_Kick-Off 

See you there!  

You’re Invited: New DCPS Middle School Kick-Off Meeting

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DCPS is opening a new middle school in School Year 2028-2029 at 800 Euclid St NW. (For details, check out our posts about the FY25 budget and the community survey launched last month!) 

Please join us as we kick off community engagement for the new middle school on Tuesday, December 3rd from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at the Shaw Neighborhood Library (1630 7th St NW). Attendees will learn about the new school, explore insights from the community survey, and be invited to share their questions and ideas.  

The Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library is located across from the Shaw-Howard University Metro station, at the intersection of 7th Street NW and Rhode Island Avenue NW. When exiting the train, take the R and 8th Street exit. Childcare and language interpretation will be provided.
Please register here: bit.ly/NewMS_Kick-Off 

We want to hear from you! Please complete the community survey here by November 22, 2024. If you have any questions, please email us at dcps.planning@k12.dc.gov. 

New DCPS MS Community Survey

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As previously announced with the release of Mayor Bowser’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), a new middle school is slated to open in SY28-29. It will be a comprehensive, neighborhood middle school with a boundary, serving grades 6-8. It will be the feeder middle school for Cleveland ES, Garrison ES, and Seaton ES. Students at these schools currently in 2nd grade and younger can attend when the school opens in 2028. 

We invite you to participate in a brief survey to inform initial engagement. The survey will remain open until November 12, 2024. If you have any questions, please email us at dcps.planning@k12.dc.gov. 

Click here to access the survey. 

Bancroft Elementary School Update

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On August 22, 2024, DC Public Schools (DCPS) shared an update with the Bancroft ES community addressing the school’s over-utilization challenges and the 2023 Boundary and Student Assignment Study recommendations.  

For School Year 2025-2026 and School Year 2026-2027, DCPS will relocate Bancroft Elementary School’s PK3 and PK4 classrooms to the Sharpe Health building at 4300 13th St NW to alleviate overutilization at Bancroft. The facility was selected due to its proximity to the school, current use as a DCPS learning space, and previous use as a swing space for Bancroft during the school’s modernization. More information on the relocation of PK3 and PK4 classrooms to Sharpe will be shared with families over the next few months. 

To read the full letter, click here (English) and here (Spanish).

Changes to the Cardozo feeder pattern

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On June 12, 2024, DCPS sent emails to families at Cardozo EC, Francis EC, shared an update with the community about changes to be implemented at Cardozo Education Campus and its feeder pattern.  

Over the next several years, DC Public Schools (DCPS) will implement the following changes: 

  • Cardozo will phase out middle grades: We are enthusiastic about the opportunity for Cardozo to return to a traditional high school. In School Year (SY) 2025-2026, Cardozo will not enroll a new 6th grade class. By SY 2027-2028, Cardozo will serve only grades 9-12. 
  • DCPS will open a new middle school: In March 2022, Mayor Bowser announced funding for DCPS to open a new middle school at 800 Euclid St NW (the former Banneker High School building) in August 2028. Engagement opportunities will be shared on the School Planning blog soon. 
  • John Francis Education Campus will temporarily expand its feeder pattern: Students who graduate from Cleveland, Garrison, and Seaton Elementary Schools currently have geographic feeder rights to enroll at Cardozo for middle school. Beginning in School Year 2025-2026, students at these three elementary schools will have feeder rights to enroll at John Francis Education Campus for 6th grade. This will continue until the enrollment for the new middle school opens. At that time, students graduating from Cleveland, Garrison, and Seaton will have feeder rights only to the new middle school. 

Please read the letters from Chancellor Ferebee here: 
1. Letter to the Cardozo community, click here (English), here (Spanish) 

2. Letter to the Cleveland ES community, click here (English), here (Spanish) 

3. Letter to the Seaton ES community, click here (English), here (Spanish) 

4. Letter to the Garrison ES community, click here (English), here (Spanish) 

5. Letter to the John Francis EC community, click here (English), here (Spanish) 
 
 

School Year 2025-2026 boundary and feeder pattern changes

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In 2023-2024, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME) led a boundary and student assignment study. The study was a comprehensive review of DC Public Schools (DCPS) boundaries and feeder patterns and of public school student assignment policies in accordance with the Attendance Zone Boundaries Act of 2013. The study focused on solving current and anticipated future challenges relating to clear rights, adequate capacity, and equitable access to public schools for the next 10 years.  

The process culminated in a series of recommendations made by the DC Advisory Committee on Student Assignment. In June 2024, Mayor Muriel Bowser approved the recommendations.  

Read the report with final recommendations.  

Read the Mayor’s approval of the Advisory Committee’s recommendations.  

As a result, DCPS communicated via letter and email with families living in a boundary change area: Four groups received this communication: 

  1. Public school families living in a change area newly assigned to Malcolm X, previously Turner (link) 
  1. Public school families living in a change area newly assigned to Amidon-Bowen, previously Van Ness (link) 
  1. Public school families living in the Ross boundary whose assigned middle school changed (link) 
  1. Public school families living in the Thomson boundary whose assigned middle school changed (link) 

DCPS will continue to work on implementation of the recommendations that directly impact or are owned by DCPS. Updates will be posted to this page on a rolling basis.