(Plain Press October 2025) This year in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District several schools will be in different buildings from where they were last year.

   The new Clark School building at 5550 Clark Avenue is housing not only the returning Clark School students, but also students who attended Walton School last year. Walton School, at Fulton and Walton is now closed.

   The former H Barbara Booker school building at W. 67^th just south of Lorain Avenue, where Clark School students went to school while they awaited their new school building, will now be a temporary home for students from Marion C. Seltzer School. A new school will be built on the site of the former Marion C. Seltzer School at W. 98^th Street just north of Madison Avenue.

   Joseph Gallagher School students are now back in their completely refurbished school building at 6601 Franklin Boulevard after spending several school years at the former William Dean Howells Junior High School building (more recently Garrett Morgan High School) on Woodbine Avenue.

   When Newton D. Baker School at 3690 W. 159^th Street closed at the end of last school year, Cleveland Metropolitan School District Chief Executive Officer Dr. Warren Morgan said no available school building has enough space to accommodate the entire student body. He said with open enrollment students can apply to attend any Cleveland Metropolitan School District school. He noted that there also will be guaranteed enrollment at either Wilbur Wright (11005 Parkhurst Drive), which had 143 open seats, or at Clara E. Westropp (19101 Puritas Avenue), which had 104 open seats.

   Morgan suggested that Newton D. Baker students that are interested in the arts go to Wilbur Wright. He said Wilbur Wright has an auditorium like the one at Newton D. Baker. He said a new dance studio will be added, and the music and arts rooms will be refreshed.

     Morgan said the Special Needs students will be moved to Clara Westropp, which already has ten classrooms for Special Needs students and well equipped and well-trained teachers and principal to support the students.