School closures

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Monday, October 26, 1998

Details of Cincinnati Public Schools' facilities master plan are to be released today. The plan recommends sweeping changes for the district's 79 schools. Among those changes, 19 schools would be closed, although 14 of them would be rebuilt:

Bloom Middle School in the West End would close. Students would go to Washburn, Heberle or Hayes-Porter.

Porter and Hayes, which already share some facilities, would merge into one kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school.

Peoples Middle School in Hyde Park would close and reopen as a neighborhood K-8 or magnet school.

Sands Montessori School in the West End would either be renovated as a K-8 magnet or closed and relocated to the East Side, possibly at Peoples.

Hyde Park School would be renovated, or it could be closed and students would go to a K-8 neighborhood school at Peoples.

Linwood Fundamental Academy in the East End would close, and students would go to a new K-8 magnet site or McKinley School.

McKinley School in the East End would close and students would go to a new K-8 neighborhood school, if a site can be found in the area; if not, McKinley would be renovated as a K-8 school.

Roosevelt School would close, and students would attend either a new Millvale school or a renovated Oyler School.

Fairview, Millvale, Pleasant Ridge, Schiel, Washburn, Windsor and Winton Place Academy would be replaced with new K-8 neighborhood schools.

Rothenberg School, Vine and Washington Park schools in Over-the-Rhine would close and be replaced by two K-8 neighborhood schools, one on each side of Liberty Street.

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