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Tentative Plans for OKC MAPS for Kids High
Schools Presented
Oklahoma City – The
Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of Education today hears
recommendations from the school district on the transition of
students to the new John Marshall High School and the fully
renovated Eisenhower High School beginning in the fall of 2006.
The two new schools are part of the MAPS for Kids
plan. When the plan is complete in 2007, the new John Marshall
High School being built at NW 122nd and Portland will
house 510 students in grades 7 through 12 at a cost
of $25.5 million. The plan also includes converting Eisenhower
Elementary at NE 101 and Kelley to a comprehensive high school.
Renovations include adding a competition gymnasium, auditorium
and science laboratory. The facility will house 585 students in
grades 7 through 12 at a cost of $16.9 million.
Construction also continues on the new Douglass High School at
900 MLK and U.S. Grant High School at 5016 S Penn.
“All of these new high schools will offer district
families state-of-the-art learning facilities for their
children,” says Oklahoma City Schools Superintendent Bob Moore.
“The new buildings will help keep secondary students in the
district and assure that growth needs are met in the future.”
The preliminary district recommendations include
drawing new attendance boundary lines for both John Marshall and
Eisenhower students in grades 7 through 12. Staffing of the new
schools will begin in early 2006. The district will hold a
number of forums to get public input of the proposed changes.
The final recommendations will be presented to the Board of
Education in November.
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