Superintendent Mark Bedell laid out a $204.7 million capital budget for the coming fiscal year to the Anne Arundel County Board of Education at the school district headquarters in Annapolis, Wednesday.
The request is roughly $32 million less than this year’s budget.
Nearly 60% of the recommendation is for constructing three new schools: the Center of Applied Technology in Severn and Old Mill High School and Old Mill Middle School North, both in Millersville.
The recommendation also includes $9.2 million for a new school bus facility; $8 million to address a maintenance backlog; $6 million for roof replacement projects; $5 million for kindergarten and prekindergarten additions; $4 million for athletic stadium improvements; and $4 million for other classroom additions.
Bedell gave the board his six-year capital improvement plan, which allocates funds through 2031. The board will hold a public meeting on the capital budget Sept. 16 and vote on it at the next school board meeting Sept. 18.
Once approved by the board, the plan will be sent to the state’s Interagency Commission on School Construction and included as part of the school system’s overall fiscal year 2026 request to County Executive Steuart Pittman in February. The County Council will review that plan and adopt a final capital budget for the school system by June.
