On Monday–the first day of school for many students in the county–Cabin Branch Elementary School students danced to Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” in the gymnasium and explored the grounds of their new school with excitement.
Cabin Branch Elementary is Clarksburg’s newest school and features greenspaces, athletic fields, an interior courtyard and classrooms that are designed to support collaboration.
The opening of Cabin Branch Elementary–Montgomery County Public Schools’ 211th school–has been in the works since 2014 when the site was first selected, said Seth Adams, MCPS associate superintendent for facilities management. According to Adams, MCPS pursued the project to provide relief from overcrowding at Clarksburg Elementary School.
Cabin Branch Elementary has a capacity for 740 students and MCPS projects there will be about 721 students enrolled…
