Montgomery County Public Schools included an updated list of future school sites in an October 2025 CIP update, outlining dozens of properties across the county that are reserved, planned, or protected for potential public school use (full list available below).
The list includes three main categories: Board of Education owned sites, master planned school sites titled to other entities, and Board of Education owned sites under perpetual easement. Together, they provide a snapshot of where MCPS could build or expand schools in the coming decades, while also showing which sites are no longer viable for development due to legal or environmental restrictions. This is not a list of scheduled or proposed renovations.
The largest portion of the list consists of Board of Education owned sites that remain available for future school construction. These include long discussed locations such as Brickyard Middle School in Potomac, Crown High School near Fields Road in Gaithersburg (under construction), Kings Bridge Middle School in Damascus, Laytonsville Middle School, and Monocacy Middle School in Poolesville. Several elementary school sites are also included, such as Hawkins Creamery Road Elementary, Kendale Elementary, Northwest Branch Elementary, Oak Drive Elementary, and Woodwards Road Elementary. Acreage for these sites generally ranges from about 9 acres to more than 30 acres, depending on the planned school type and location…