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Rockville officials, parents urge board to keep Wootton on CIP and oppose superintendent’s relocation plan
Summary
Local officials, parents and students told the Montgomery County Board of Education the superintendent’s plan to relocate Wootton High School (described by some as a closure) would harm neighborhood stability and equity; speakers urged using Crown Farm as a temporary holding school and asked the board to delay any vote until enrollment and funding projections are verified.
Rockville City Council member Izola Shaw told the Montgomery County Board of Education that the superintendent’s recommendation to relocate Wootton High School does not live up to equity commitments and would destabilize neighborhood families, urging the board to adopt Rockville’s modified recommendation to keep Wootton in the capital improvement program (CIP) and to use Crown Farm as a temporary holding school.
The argument recurred across multiple speakers: Wootton parents, student advocates and community cluster coordinators said closing or relocating the school would lengthen students’ commutes, increase transportation costs, and break neighborhood ties. “Closing a neighborhood school in such a short time frame destabilizes communities,” Izola Shaw said, urging the board to “choose…
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