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Ninth-grade campuses moving forward

By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@TheCitizen.com

One of the Coweta County School System’s more unique projects is moving forward.

The Board of Education’s Finance and Building and Grounds Committees met Tuesday and voted to recommend financing methods for three ninth-grade campus buildings and an expansion of Eastside Elementary School in Senoia.

According to school spokesperson Dean Jackson, Eastside Elementary will receive a 10-classroom expansion. The $24 million high school campus projects will build three 650-student ninth-grade buildings, one at each of the three high school campuses. The school system plans to begin construction on all four projects in by the spring of 2006 or earlier, with completion by August 2007. Jackson said.

The early architectural plans for each ninth-grade campus show a pair of two-story buildings that will house 650 students, a media center and cafeteria.

Jackson said the new ninth-grade classrooms will expand the capacities of the three high school campuses.

East Coweta had a brief experience with a ninth-grade campus in 1996-97, when the current East Coweta Middle School was used by East Coweta High’s ninth-grade students as an expansion was made at the high school, Jackson said.

The board is expected to issue bonds later this year to build the projects. The bonds will be paid back from proceeds of a school SPLOST that was approved by voters earlier this year.