Progress on Lacey school site

Finally some action on the Lacey school! Fairfax County Public Schools located office space for the school employees at the Lacey Center, smoothing the way for the building to be demolished so construction of a new elementary school on that site can begin. Current plans call for staff moves to begin in December and be completed by June 2010.

Fairfax County Public Schools signed a six-year lease Sept. 30 to occupy office space in the Fairfax Ridge area at the corner of Route 50 and Waples Mill Road in Fairfax for the employees at the Lacey and Devonshire sites. Both of those sites will house new elementary schools for the start of the 2012-13 school year. According to FCPS, the new schools will alleviate overcrowding and make it possible to eliminate 42 trailers and modular classrooms at several existing schools.