Schools
Report: Rock Creek Hills Park Now Owned by Board of Ed
Despite neighbor protests, a Kensington park will become the site of a new middle school for Montgomery County Public Schools.
By Whitney Teal
Plans are moving forward for the construction of a new middle school—at the site of the Rock Creek Hills Local Park—for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase school cluster, despite protests of park neighbors and a lawsuit by residents of Kensington’s Rock Creek Hills community, The Gazette reported.
Rock Creek Hills Local Park, at 3701 Saul Rd., is now officially Montgomery County Board of Education property, the newspaper reported.
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The park will stay open for as long as possible. The school is scheduled to be finished by August 2017, according to The Gazette.
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