The school also suffers more than the usual brushes with violence: Jonathan Dos Santos, who was killed at 16 last year, was a student at McKinley Preparatory School in the Fenway, and several other students have been killed and injured in the past decade. Some arrive every morning from group homes others have to transfer in at midyear. That includes students suffering from ADHD and suicidal depression. The McKinley program - really four schools spread across three campuses, including the one on Warren - play a special role inside Boston Public Schools, as the educators of last resort for almost 400 students with emotional and behavioral problems and very little history of succeeding in school. As city officials embark on BuildBPS, an ambitious 10-year master plan bent on remaking Boston’s facilities for the 21st century, the conflicting claims on the Warren Avenue lot could be seen as a sign of trouble, or a helpful lesson. 1 step is to stop pitting these schools against one another.”īut conflicts do come up - and facilities decisions made at the top tend to speak volumes to teachers and students down below. “We know our building stock is old, and that we need to think about new buildings,” said Ross Wilson, deputy superintendent for administration and innovation. Two-thirds of the city’s 132 school buildings were constructed before World War II, and 60 percent of participants in a recent city survey rated their facilities as “fair” or “poor.” Their campus is currently spread across three buildings - one built in 1911 and another a 90-year-old converted office building. Leaders of the Josiah Quincy Upper School, one of the city’s highest-performing and most challenging high schools, have sought a new building since at least 2010. Drawing of the proposed Josiah Quincy Upper School to be constructed at 90 Warren Ave. Later that week, a schematic drawing of the proposed building surfaced online. The letter said the Massachusetts School Building Association, a statewide organization that invests in new school buildings, had agreed that the city could go forward with its plan to build a new, $83 million school on the site. “It was a shock, to see it fleshed out on paper: that we were going to be sent to who knows where, retrofitted, to make way for a whole new school with a new group of kids,” said David Russell, who has taught middle-school students in that Warren Avenue building for the past 29 years. ![]() “The proposal,” Jones wrote, “calls for the Warren Avenue building to be demolished, beginning the summer of 2017.” Jones informed them that the city had received approval to move forward on its plan to build a new school for the Josiah Quincy Upper School - at 90 Warren Ave., South End Academy’s current home. In May, a month before graduation, parents and teachers at the McKinley South End Academy were surprised by a letter from Carleton Jones, executive director of capital and facilities management at Boston Public Schools. Facebook Email Juan Lopez, 2016 valedictorian at the McKinley South End Academy, says of the school: "That's home." (Max Larkin/WBUR)
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