Walkersville Middle School Property Considered for New Rock Creek School
Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) is seeking a new site for the Rock Creek School, which provides special education programs for students with complex medical conditions and severe intellectual, physical, emotional, hearing, vision and learning disabilities, from ages 3 through 21.
Seven potential sites are under consideration; six are on current schools’ property. At each potential school site, Rock Creek School would be a stand-alone building on the school property. Sites under consideration are Ballenger Creek Middle, Dearbought property, Gov. Thomas Johnson Middle, Monocacy Elementary/Middle, Tuscarora Elementary, Valley Elementary and Walkersville Middle.
The Rock Creek School (RCS) Replacement will be a newly developed design that has a state-rated capacity of 120 students, and it will be a single-story facility comprised of about 81,000 gross square feet (GSF). The new RCS Replacement will be an energy-efficient building that meets, at a minimum, U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification requirements, local building codes and educational program specifications.
The design team will be evaluating sites during the first phase of the design process and will make recommendation for final site selection around December 2017.
The public is invited to come out to the existing Rock Creek School at 191 Waverley Drive, Frederick, MD on Wednesday, November 1, from 7-8 PM for a question-and-answer session with the design team on the sites and the process in which the selection is going to take place. The meeting will be held in the Rock Creek School gymnasium.
