Located on the Potomac River near Georgetown, Foxhall Village consists largely of row houses and apartments. Hardy Park’s improvements, which include a new playground and a dog park, has excited residents there.
“[M]ost people don’t have back yards,” said longtime resident Robert Avery, 73. “The park is their playground. That’s where they go.”
D.C. Public Schools officials have announced plans to build a 75,000-square-foot, $56 million elementary school in Foxhall Village one of two new schools aimed at addressing overcrowding and preserving racial and socioeconomic diversity in Ward 3 classrooms.
“Over the last several years, the Wilson [High School] feeder pattern has grown whiter and with fewer students meeting [the] at-risk criteria,” the school system said in a community survey. “DCPS aims to identify opportunities in this process to mitigate against the demographic changes.”