Community Meeting Tonight on Patrick Henry Swing Space
The meeting will be held at Patrick Henry from 6 to 7 p.m.
Alexandria, VA – Alexandria City Public Schools will conduct its first community meeting over the conversion of the vacant 1950s-era Patrick Henry Elementary School as swing space during the modernization of Douglas MacArthur Elementary School. The meeting will be held at Patrick Henry from 6 to 7 p.m.
The move means that until MacArthur is ready in 2023, hundreds of area students will go to school in an old building that was set to be demolished – right next door to the brand new Patrick Henry Elementary School.
The Patrick Henry property will be home to 1,500 students, and ACPS will spend $5 million in renovating the old school. Meanwhile, the $55.58 million renovation of MacArthur will be moved up from 2025 to 2023. A community meeting was held on April 1 to discuss the plan, followed by the board’s action three days later. Board Member Heather Thornton was the lone dissenting vote.
