BLACKSBURG, VA – JUNE 14: New deadbolts secure doors without handles in a classroom on second floor of Norris Hall ahead of the phased re-use of building June 14, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia. On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech undergraduate student Hsung-wei Cho went on a shooting rampage on the second floor, killing 30 of his 32 victims there, while they were attending or teaching engineering and language classes in Norris Hall. Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said the June 18 reopening of Norris Hall is the best way for the College of Engineering and the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics to heal and move forward. No general assignment classes will be held in Norris, but the 70,000-square-foot building will be used for offices and laboratories. The classrooms where the shootings happened will remain closed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
D.C. Public Schools is inviting community members to give their input on a new middle school in the Shaw neighborhood.
In March 2022, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced funding for DCPS to open a new middle school at 800 Euclid St. NW, the former Banneker High School building, in August 2028.
The new middle school, sometimes temporarily referred to as Euclid Middle School, will serve grades six to eight. Cleveland, Garrison and Seaton elementary schools will feed Euclid, according to letters shared over the summer to families at affected schools.
Currently, the three elementary schools feed into Cardozo Education Campus, which serves both middle and high school students. Cardozo will convert into a traditional high school by the 2027-2028 school year and will not enroll a sixth grade class next school to begin phasing out middle school grade levels.
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To accommodate the changes, the John Francis Education Campus will temporarily expand its feeder program to the three elementary schools until the new middle school opens.
The survey will close Friday at midnight.
