The revised version of the Pittsburgh Public Schools Facilities Utilization Plan pulled some schools off the chopping block and sent others in their place.But the question of which East End high school will serve which neighborhood was left under the heading “to be determined” with students who were once headed to Allderdice High School now possibly heading to Obama Academy, Science and Technology Academy or Westinghouse Academy.The schools that had been first listed to close, but now will remain open, include Lincoln K-5, Weil PreK-5 and Carrick High School. Miller Elementary School will join other schools slated to close.Boston-based Education Resource Strategies presented the revised version to the school board at a meeting Tuesday. Pittsburgh Public Schools’ 54 buildings are designed to educate about 38,000 students — current enrollment is about 18,000 students. The district is also staring at a revenue shortfall of more than $20 million and has been balancing its budget using reserve funds that are expected to run out in 2025.Despite that, the request for proposals for consultants to develop a facilities plan did not ask for a plan to reduce the number of seats to fit current school enrollment or for the plan to produce savings that would eliminate the shortfall.ERS was hired for $250,000. The consultants extended their participation in the contract for an additional month to process thousands of resident comments about the original plan, which would have closed nine buildings and eliminated fewer than 4,000 seats. ERS did not receive any extra compensation for the extra month.Then Interim Superintendent Wayne Walters greets students at Pittsburgh King PRE-K-8, which is now expected to close. Photo by Mary Niederberger.The revised plan based on school size and ERS’ budget projections would close 12 buildings including the Gifted Center, and it would save at least $10.5 million in operating costs. Additional savings would come from transportation as the district moves to neighborhood schools. ERS also noted that while the new plan would call for $70.5 million in renovations, including nearly rebuilding Northview preK-5 and Manchester 6-8, the district would not have to proceed with  $129.1 million in renovations for schools slated to close, resulting in an overall savings of $58.6 million.Under the revised plan, Creative and Performing Arts Academy (CAPA) would remain a 6-12 school because of the expense of converting another school into a middle school for the arts. However, all other schools would change to K-5, 6-8 or 9-12. Other than CAPA and the Montessori School — the latter of which would move from the Fulton building in Friendship to the Linden building in Point Breeze — other whole school magnets that retain their programs would become neighborhood schools with their own feeder patterns. This would include the science and technology program at Sci. Tech High School and the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at Obama Academy.The magnet programs on the elementary level at Carmalt, Dilworth, Liberty and Linden would all be eliminated. Dilworth and Liberty will become neighborhood schools. Carmalt, which currently serves children from prekindergarten to eighth grade, will be converted into a middle school.Page 145 of 214 of the latest ERS plan for Pittsburgh Public School facilities. Read the full report. Photo courtesy of ERS.Those East End schools will have new feeder patterns when the magnets are closed and Colfax, currently a K-8 program, is converted to a 6-8 middle school.After the consultants presented their final plan for the schools, Superintendent of Schools Wayne Walters said changing Sci Tech and Obama Academy into neighborhood high schools means they are going to need new feeder patterns.Under the ERS proposal, current Colfax Elementary students who live in Squirrel Hill south of the school will attend Minadeo Elementary and those north of the school, in Point Breeze, Shadyside and Squirrel Hill North will attend Liberty K-5. The recommended feeder pattern for those students will be to attend middle school at Arsenal in Lawrenceville, which would have an IB program and lose its elementary school. They will attend Obama for high school.Some students in the Arsenal/Obama feeder pattern will also have the option to attend the Sci Tech middle school at Milliones in the Hill District and Sci Tech high school in Oakland.Parents, staff of the Pittsburgh Public Schools and members of the community at a July meeting at Obama Academy to discuss the plan for the district’s facilities. Photo by Ann Belser.The presentation also recommended that students bound for Westinghouse High School would spend their middle school years at Sterrett 6-8. Sterett students would come from Dilworth, Faison and Lincoln.A slide later in the consultant’s presentation indicated that the feeder patterns for middle and high school for Dilworth, Faison, Liberty, Lincoln, Sunnyside and Weil are to be determined.On the North Side, King PreK-8 is slated to close, as are Spring Hill K-5, Schiller 6-8 and Allegheny 6-8. King will be used for middle school as-is and Manchester PreK-8 is to be renovated into a middle school. By the time the facilities plan is completed, if it is approved by the board, the North Side will have three elementary schools — Allegheny, Morrow and Northview — that will feed into Manchester for middle school. Perry will be the local high school.In the south and west, Arlington PreK-8 and South Brook 6-8 would be closed.Under the new plan, Brashear High School will be fed by two middle schools: Classical (PCA) and Carmalt. Students from Langley, Whittier and Westwood elementary schools would attend Classical for middle school and students from Banksville, Beechwood, Brookline and Phillips would go on to Carmalt.Carrick High School would be filled by graduates of Arlington Middle School who would have come from Concord, Grandview and West Liberty elementary schools.The school board members asked Walters to incorporate the consultants’ plans into a proposal it could consider for action. The earliest any schools would close would be next fall, though the plan is designed to be phased in over the next three school years.The post East End schools face changes in new Pittsburgh Public Schools closing plan appeared first on NEXTpittsburgh.