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MCPS Superintendent Recommends Kensington Park As New School Site

MCPS Superintendent Joshua Starr recommended Rock Creek Hills Park as the site for a new middle school for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster.

The Montgomery County Public Schools superintendent agrees that in Kensington would be the best site to build a new middle school.

According to the Gazette, Superintendent Joshua Starr announced his recommendation on Friday.

The new middle school is needed in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster to resolve overcrowding at Westland Middle School.

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The site selection committee recommended Montgomery County Public Schools build the new school at the Kensington Park at 3701 Saul Rd. on March 14. The committee listed (4105 Jones Bridge Rd.) as the alternate site.

For more on what Starr said, read the Gazette.

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