Mayor’s Ed Panel Approves P.S. 8 Expansion
Middle School Co-Locating at Westinghouse
Years of hard work by P.S. 8 families, administration and representatives paid off last Thursday night when the Mayor’s Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) approved a middle school co-location at Westinghouse High School in Downtown Brooklyn, about five blocks from the Brooklyn Heights elementary school.
The new middle school will open with sixth grade next September and would expand by one grade each year until it reaches full scale in 2014-2015.
Local families, desperate to stay in the neighborhood, have been working for years to add a middle school to the increasingly popular P.S. 8, which is operating at 156 percent capacity.