O'Bryant High School

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has backed off from plans to move the O’Bryant School from the heart of the Black community to West Roxbury, meaning that the city’s premiere academy of science and mathematics will remain, at least for now, on Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury.

Five years ago, the Boston School Committee voted to close the West Roxbury Education Complex, citing city reports that the school building was unsafe. Now, the city is proposing a new life for the complex, and for two of the city’s high schools.