Wednesday, January 22, 2003
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
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High school, middle school boundaries change this year
By MONROE
ROARK
Due to the early opening of Whitewater High School next year at the LaFayette Educational Center, the Fayette County School System has announced that it will implement school boundary changes for secondary students at the beginning of the 2003-2004 academic year one year earlier than planned. The boundary changes for middle and high school, which were passed by the Board of Education last year, were originally slated to go into effect during the 2004-2005 school year to coincide with the opening of the new Whitewater High School being built on Ga. Highway 85 South next to Sara Harp Minter Elementary. With the school board approving the early opening of the high school at the LEC next year, the new boundaries will now go into effect this summer at the beginning of the 2003-2004 academic year. The LEC is the old Fayette County High School in the center of Fayetteville. At a called meeting Aug. 5, 2002, the board voted in favor of the new high school opening in August 2003 and being housed at the LEC for one year prior to the completion of the permanent facility. Ninth-grade students slated to attend Whitewater will begin high school next year at the LEC and then move into the school's new facility at the beginning of the 2004-2005 academic year. The early opening of the school will help to alleviate overcrowding at Fayette County and Starr's Mill High Schools and will allow ninth-graders to start Whitewater High together instead of attending another school for one year before switching to the new one, according to school officials.
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