North Atlanta to move to new location in Buckhead
It’s confirmed. Atlanta Public Schools has announced its intent to purchase land in Buckhead and build a new, state-of-the-art high school for North Atlanta High School students. APS has located a piece of property large enough to accommodate plans for the new school, which include a wide array of classroom and athletic spaces and the necessary parking. APS is not disclosing the property’s location until negotiations are complete.
According to a backgrounder posted by APS, “it generally takes approximately 18 months to build a high school.” The system is shooting to have the property acquired by the end of this year, so North Atlanta students could be in the new school as soon as the 2012-2013 school year.
Overcrowding at Sutton Middle School is the driving force behind APS’s move. Families in Sutton’s attendance zone increasingly have chosen to send their children to their neighborhood school, and APS expects this trend to continue far beyond Sutton’s current capacity. With that in mind, the existing North Atlanta campus will become a new middle school for the district to help offset this overcrowding.
Good for Sutton, bad for NAH. North Atlanta has been relocated more recently than Sutton. I proclaim Sutton should be the ones relocating and not North Atlanta High.
If Sutton was recently renovated in 2006 why were accommodations for future overcrowding taking into consideration & acted upon?
Relocation NAH deeper into Buckhead (which is most likely what will happen) will only decrease the number of students bused from other school districts looking to enhance themselves on an education and social level.
I STRONGLY DISAGREE!
admin – I left off (not) “why were accommodations for future overcrowding (not) taking into consideration & acted upon?
I think it’s a terrible idea. Northside (North Atlanta) has been there forever!!! They should just upgrade it. I didn’t graduate from there but loved the two years that I spent there.
The high school that I did graduated from was torn down to build a middle school!!!! If we keep tearing down high schools alumni members won’t have anywhere to come back and visit!!! No one visits their middle or elementary schools!!!:~(
I’ve only been back for one reunion… 20th, because I missed 10th & our 30th haven’t came up yet!!!
I agree with Robert Scott, you should relocate Sutton, because no one visits their middle school.
PLEASE DON’T TEAR IT DOWN,,, SAVE IT FOR OUR MEMORIES!!!!
I just heard that the school is looking to move the school to possibly The Dump furniture store and take the land under eminent domain. Why the dump? Is it going out of business? Channel 2 News just made the announcement.