New High School Will Relieve Overcrowding

New High School Will Relieve Overcrowding (Added: April 01, 2009)

The new Grovetown High School will be paid for, when the doors open, in the fall. It will also help to relieve overcrowding at Harlem, Evans and Greenbrier High Schools. Count on WJBF News Channe ... (more)

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New High School Will Relieve Overcrowding

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Published: April 01, 2009

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Grovetown, GA -- They'll be ready to move in the furniture, June 1st, at the new Grovetown High School, on Chamblin Road.

Superintendent Charles Nagle says the new school created the largest rezoning effort ever, and students will be pulled from the four existing high schools to make up the new school.

Harlem High School will be losing the most students, from 1,400 down to 800. Lakeside and Greebrier High Schools will be left with around 1,700 students.

Superintendent Charles Nagle, Columbia County Board of Education: “It's going to reduce a lot of portables, we're expecting to get about 50 portables we will not have in use. This is about the best position we have been in in ten years, as far as getting children back in brick and mortar.”

The $40 million project is as good as paid for.

Nagle: “When we open the doors, we will not owe any money on that mainly because of the money we received from the state allocation, and our one-cent local option sales tax. So, it's not going to be a burden on our tax digest, or property owners, and we're very proud of that because it's putting that money back into our economy.”

Nagle says the County won't need another high school for another 8 to 10 years.