The Pittsburgh Public Schools board has agreed to move grades 10, 11 and 12 from the asbestos-plagued Pittsburgh Schenley High School to the Reizenstein building this fall, open a new university partnership school at the Milliones building and make other changes sought by Superintendent Mark Roosevelt.

The board voted last night to move the students, although it did not vote on whether to close the Schenley building in Oakland, which school officials have estimated needs potentially $64 million in repairs.

Mr. Roosevelt, who in October proposed closing Schenley, said that new data warrant another look at whether the building can be saved. The board last night said it wants the superintendent to make a recommendation on the building in May.

No decision has been made, but even if the building were saved, Mr. Roosevelt said, it would be impossible to do the renovations while students are in the building because of safety and cost. Hence, he said, board approval was needed for what would be at least temporary relocations.

The 174 students now in the robotics technology magnet at Pittsburgh Schenley will be included in the move to Reizenstein in Shadyside, but their magnet courses will be given at Pittsburgh Peabody High School in East Liberty. Incoming ninth-graders in the magnet will be assigned to Peabody.

Instead of moving with the Schenley group, students entering the ninth grade in the international studies program this fall will be assigned to Pittsburgh Frick, which now serves grades six through eight in an international studies magnet.

The board also agreed to open University Prep 6-12 at the Milliones building in the Hill District this fall, starting with ninth-graders who previously would have been assigned to Schenley as their feeder pattern. This new school is not expected to be temporary.

Other grades will be phased in. The following year, grades six to eight will be added.

All portions of the high school reform plan received at least six votes. Board member Mark Brentley voted against all of the education agenda items. Randall Taylor voted against the move to Reizenstein, Peabody and the new University school. Heather Arnet voted against the move to Reizenstein.

Some elementary changes related to the creation of the new secondary school are planned but were not voted on last night:

• Pittsburgh Miller PreK-8 would become a PreK-5 school in 2009-10, with the middle school grades assigned to the new University Prep school.

• Pittsburgh Vann would close at for the 2009-10 year. Its students in grades six through eight would attend Pittsburgh Weil PreK-8 or the new University Prep school. Those in kindergarten through fifth grade would attend Weil or Miller.

The board also authorized district officials to enter nonbinding talks with Carnegie Science Center about a proposed science and technology high school at the science center. A feasibility study is to be prepared by April 1. Board members Thomas Sumpter and Mr. Taylor voted against this.

The district also is continuing to view the possibility of opening a science and technology program at the Frick building beginning in fall 2009.

The actions taken last night advance the district's "Excel.9-12, the Plan for High School Excellence," which included four new 6-12 "learning communities" focusing on the International Baccalaureate; a university partnership; a science and technology school; and a combined middle and high school for the arts.