Seven Locks solution: Renovation, redistricting

Seven Locks Elementary School will be renovated by 2011 with up to eight new classrooms, according to a compromise plan approved Wednesday by the Montgomery County Council.

The plan also will ensure that overcrowded Bells Mill Elementary School, which is nearby, is rebuilt by 2009 to accommodate more than 600 students. All schools in the Winston Churchill cluster would then be redistricted to relieve overcrowding at Potomac Elementary School and Bells Mill.