While some parents and elected officials were ready to take up arms Thursday over the announcement that the District plans to close 15 schools, parents of students at Garrison Elementary School were celebrating.

“I started crying in my meeting,” Ann McLeod, the school’s PTA president, said of her reaction to the news that the school straddling the border of Wards 1 and 2 — on a list of 20 schools DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson proposed closing — would remain open.