Providence Elementary School

Summary

Providence Elementary School (3616 Jermantown Road, Tax Map Parcel 47-3-01-040) is one of four schools in the City of Fairfax school system. The principal municipal actions tracked here concern a series of capital and infrastructure improvements. On April 8, 2025, the City Council unanimously approved (6-0) a Special Use Permit allowing the City of Fairfax School Board to place temporary modular classrooms on the site, valid for 8 years. On September 9, 2025, the Council awarded a professional services contract for Architectural Design, Engineering, and Construction Management to Architecture, Incorporated, covering Providence Elementary School (alongside a parallel contract for Daniels Run Elementary), with combined FY2026 expenses not to exceed $3,000,000. A separate $250,000 CIP reappropriation for a security vestibule at the school was discussed at the November 4, 2025 work session and placed on the November 18, 2025 consent agenda for formal approval. The school also figures prominently in an ongoing Germantown Road corridor safety study, with proposed improvements including dedicated turn lanes at the school's north driveway, rapid flashing beacon crossings, and access management changes in proximity to the campus.

Open questions & options on the table

• Status of the architectural design and construction management work by Architecture, Incorporated — no completion date or design milestones have been reported yet.
• Formal vote outcome of the November 18, 2025 reappropriation resolution for the $250,000 security vestibule is not confirmed in the record.
• Final design approval and funding/construction timeline for the Germantown Road corridor safety improvements affecting the school's north driveway, crossings, and turn lanes have not been determined.

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What members have said

Positions as recorded in meeting minutes; votes without recorded comment aren’t summarized.