Section 3: Elements—Public Facilities
Balanced school enrollment addresses capacity concerns and class sizes at area schools.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
• Cooper Lane Elementary
Prince George’s County public schools are integral to ensuring an educated workforce, a competitive housing market, and student access to opportunities that will help them grow personally and professionally. Students residing within a one-mile radius of the sector plan area attend 17 public schools. Three of these schools are located within the Greater Cheverly Sector Plan boundary—Cooper Lane Elementary, Gladys Spellman Elementary, and Robert Gray Elementary.
• Roger Heights Elementary
The policies and strategies below seek to address concerns about public school facilities and overcrowding at schools serving students who reside in the Greater Cheverly Sector Plan area.
POLICY 1 Ensure the number and mix of schools achieves a system that operates at 100 percent of capacity or less at every school. STRATEGIES PF 1.1 Consider adding classrooms to the following schools to alleviate over-capacity and accommodate future growth: Expanded educational programming enhances learning.
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• Port Towns Elementary • Bladensburg Elementary • Dodge Park Elementary • William Wirt Middle • Kenmoor Middle PF 1.2 Consider reconfiguring attendance boundaries to achieve 100 percent capacity or less at every school. PF 1.3 Explore the potential location for an urban school that meets the Plan 2035 guidelines to develop a standard minimum site size for new construction, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse of structures for school use within urban settings. PF 1.4 Encourage Prince George’s County Public Schools to expand educational programs in local schools in order to provide additional educational options to students, including language immersion, Gifted and Talented, Montessori, and others as identified by school administrators.