Middle School Initiative

DCPS current has a combination of Middle grades in K-8 programs and middle schools. The recommendations from the Advisory Group on Student Assignment proposed 4 new middle schools to feed into Cardozo, Roosevelt, Coolidge and Woodson High Schools. This change will require the conversion of the K-8 schools to elementary schools. It will also require moving the current 6-8 out of Cardozo and into a new middle school - currently budgeted as Shaw. The proposal will also require a significant capital investment.

MacFarland Middle School is in the FY17 Capital Budget and opened a dual language program in the fall of 2016. The school is being modernized with a full opening in the fall of 2018.

Ida B Wells is the new middle school in the upper part of Ward 4. It is opening with the modernized Coolidge in the fall of 2019

The Shaw community is working to identify the location, Garnet Patterson or the the Banneker site on Euclid St. to locate a middle school. There is no capital funding for the construction.

There has been no progress on identifying an additional middle school for Woodson HS