The Manassas School Board and City Council will hold a joint meeting on Thursday, November 30. The governing bodies are expected to receive updates on several capital projects, including the planned construction of the replacement of Jennie Dean Elementary School.
Officials will receive a report from RRMM Architects, presenting new information about the site and design of the school, which is expected to cost at least $87 million and sit in the heart of Jennie Dean Park. According to public documents, the two-story school will hold about 1,000 students and feature an IT workworm, a broadcast booth, and collaborative learning areas.
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Insidenova.com: "Manassas City Public Schools have settled on a design for the new Jennie Dean Elementary School, with plans to break ground at the start of 2025."
"On Tuesday, School Board Chair Suzanne Seaberg announced that the division had selected Arlington-based RRMM Architects for the project. The company will use a prototype design used for Hardy Elementary School in Smithfield."
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During a Manassas City Council meeting on Monday, March 27, we learned Councilman Tom Osina pulled his proposal to fund the city schools categorically.
Osina issued the proposal, threatening to withhold funding from the city's public schools if it did not come forward with plans to rebuild the 60-year-old elementary school, at 9061 Dean Lane, by July 2024.
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The Manassas School Board will meet on Tuesday, March 14, to discuss the replacement of Jennie Dean Elementary School.
The school replacement has been a point of contention between the city council, which raised taxes to fund a new school several years ago only to find construction has yet to begin.
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The latest plans for a replacement of Jennie Dean Elementary School feature another pre-kindergarten to fourth-grade elementary school built with the same layout as Baldwin Intermediate and Elementary School, which opened in 2016.
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The Manassas City Council took no action on the proposed purchase of the largest office building in the city during its meeting Monday, February 27, 2023.
The Manassas City School Board is asking the city council to allow it to spend nearly $11 million on the largest office building in Manassas.
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Elected officials in Manassas had it out last night over efforts to build a replacement for Dean Elementary School and the school board's request to buy the largest office building in the city.
At issue is the school board's request of the city council, which funds the public schools, to reallocate $11.5 million of its budget so it can purchase 8700 Centreville Road, a four-story office building in the city's most densely-populated commercial corridor. The school division already rents space in the 33-year-old, four-story building.
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[Updated 4:38 p.m.] Manassas School officials will hear from the public about a $78 million capital improvement plan that includes a new elementary school, relocating the division's central office, and upgrading to multiple school buildings.
Topping the school division's five-year capital improvement plan is the much-talked-about replacement for the 71-year-old Jennie Dean Elementary School. The new school will cost $62 million and will be located near the existing school, on the ground of Jennie Dean Park.
A groundbreaking has yet to be scheduled for the new school. The city faces a shortage of buildable land, and officials have long talked about building the replacement school on city-owned parkland.
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Manassas needs a new Jennie Dean Elementary School; City Council and School Board at odds on funding it
MANASSAS -- Jennie Dean Elementary School is 82 years old and not getting any younger.
With aging infrastructure requiring frequent repairs and a rapidly increasing student body, Manassas’ City Council and School Board are struggling to reach a funding agreement for a new school.
