The St. Mary’s County Board of Education has chosen a 68-acre site south of Lexington Park for a new elementary school. Purchase price is $775,800. The board Tuesday authorized staff to negotiate and execute a contract of sale. The property is part of an estate and will have to get approval of the court for the deal to be finalized.
The land is known as the Eliff, Robert R. Jr. ET AL property and is located on Point Lookout Road (MD 5) about a mile south of the Great Mills Road intersection and just south of Bay Ridge Estates.
Director of Capital Planning and Green Schools Kimberly Howe told the board that the site was ideal because it already was served by water and sewer and was outside the Navy’s Air Installation Compatible Use Zone, which prohibits schools. Being in the Lexington Park Development District will ease the way for state funding.
Howe said the selection of the site was an arduous process involving consideration of 190 properties. She said the site is large enough that other uses could be put on it in addition to the elementary school. The site search began after it was determined there would be a need for a new elementary school near the Lexington Park Development District in 5 to 15 years.
The decision on the elementary school site comes just a month after the board voted to proceed with the purchase of a 281-acre site in Mechanicsville for a fourth high school. Purchase price for that land is $2.9 million.
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