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===History of schools=== The [[Lanham Act]] was used to build North End Elementary School.<ref name="Knepperp109">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRvfDQFa4d0C&pg=PA109|last=Knepper|first=Cathy D.|title=Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal|series=Creating the North American Landscape|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore|date=2001-03-09|page=109|isbn=978-0-8018-6490-2|ol=6776113M|language=en-US|oclc=46670572|access-date=2018-11-21}}</ref> The original Greenbelt High School building (later used for Greenbelt Junior High, Greenbelt Middle, and currently Dora Kennedy French Immersion School) opened in {{circa|1937}}.<ref name="Afenson-Comeau">{{Cite news|last=Afenson–Comeau|first=Jamie|url=http://www.gazette.net/gazettecms/story.php?id=44969|title=Prince George's officials consider moving French immersion program to shuttered Greenbelt school|work=[[The Gazette (Maryland)|The Gazette]]|date=2012-10-24|access-date=2018-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910155532/http://www.gazette.net/gazettecms/story.php?id=44969|archive-date=2018-09-10|url-status=live}}</ref> Originally, the [[Federal Works Agency]] controlled North End Elementary School, Greenbelt High School, and the Center School. [[High Point High School]], in [[Beltsville, Maryland|Beltsville]], opened in fall 1954, and began serving students from Greenbelt. The former Greenbelt High School then became Greenbelt Junior High School. The [[Prince George's County, Maryland|county]] bought Center School for ${{formatnum:260000}}, after the [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] renovated it in July 1958. The county also bought Greenbelt Junior High and North End Elementary.<ref name="Knepperp109" /> Roosevelt High was scheduled to open in fall 1976.<ref name="Knepperp149">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRvfDQFa4d0C&pg=PA149|last=Knepper|first=Cathy D.|title=Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal|series=Creating the North American Landscape|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore|date=2001-03-09|page=149|isbn=978-0-8018-6490-2|ol=6776113M|language=en-US|oclc=46670572|access-date=2018-11-21}}</ref> The new Greenbelt Middle School opened on August 20, 2012.<ref name="Afenson-Comeau" />
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