New O.H. Perry School to be Designed with the Community

The Oliver Hazard Perry Community Advisory Committee met for the first time May 5, 2015 to begin the work of designing a new school for the Collinwood/Nottingham community.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is in the process of building 20 to 22 schools and refurbishing 20 to 23 others across the city over the next five years. O.H. Perry is one of those new schools.

The new and renovated schools were made possible when voters overwhelmingly approved Issue 4, a $200 million bond issue, in November. Issue 4 will not raise taxes, and the state will contribute more than $2 for every $1 CMSD spends on new construction.  

The District has convened a community advisory committee to help shape the O.H. Perry School and their recommendations on design. The committee will work with the architectural firm once it is selected.

At this first meeting, the District laid out the expectation and timelines for the new school which is scheduled to be built by the end of 2017.

This committee is the first of its kind in the District and others like it will convene across the city to help design other new community schools.