FALLS CHURCH, VA-The Fairfax County School System has approved a plan to acquire a five-story office building here and convert the property into an urban-design elementary school.
The school system paid $9.4 million for the office building on Leesburg Pike. The purchase and renovation of the building is geared to help ease overcrowding at www.g
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Bailey's Elementary has the largest enrollment of any county elementary school, with 1,360 students enrolled as of November in a building meant to hold 1,020, according to the Fairfax Times.
The county hopes to have the new urban design elementary school open by next fall. See story in the Fairfax Times.
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