Blair Cluster Boundary Advisory Committee explores boundary options for opening a new elementary and middle school in the Blair cluster at the Wayne Ave. Board of Education adopts boundary changes and sets opening date of Sligo Creek E.S. and Silver Spring International MS for September 1999. Blair High School Advisory Committee formed in December 1999 to evaluate approaches for addressing projected enrollment at Blair HS Advisory Committee Process Role of Committee Members To generate criteria that will be used by staff to develop approaches To evaluate the staff developed approaches using the committee generated criteria Provide a written narrative evaluation of each approach Committee will not develop, vote on or rank approaches. This enrollment will exceed capacity by over 600 students. Montgomery Blair High School was constructed with a program capacity of 2800 and a core capacity of 3000.
Additional capacity is needed to accommodate the growing enrollment.
The recommendation also included forming a community advisory committee in winter 2000 to evaluate the possible program and facility approaches to provide the additional capacity. The Board of Education took action to convene the committee and to include area clusters in the process. The scope of the community advisory committee includes the Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Montgomery Blair, Albert Einstein, and John F. Kennedy clusters, and the Northeast Consortium including James Hubert Blake, Paint Branch, and Springbrook clusters. Further, the committee will include representatives from Montgomery Blair cluster civic associations, the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce and the Silver Spring Regional Citizens Advisory Board. The desired outcome is an evaluation of program and facility approaches to be developed by MCPS staff, to provide the additional capacity necessary to accommodate the growing enrollment at Montgomery Blair High School.