Three New APS School Renovation Projects Unveiled this Month

Atlanta Public Schools has unveiled 3 recently renovated schoolhouse renovation projects utilizing E-SPLOST (Educational Special Local Option Sales Tax) funds.

Superintendent Dr. Lisa Herring chopped the ribbon astatine the Atlanta College and Career Academy (ACCA), Hutchinson Elementary School and Humphries Elementary School.

“It’s a testament of what is large astir Atlanta Public Schools, and the greatness that comes retired of it successful our scholars, successful our alums and successful the APS legacy,” Dr. Herring told reporters.

The $8.4 cardinal ACCA project, converted the erstwhile Parks Middle School into the Dr. Michael S. Maze field of the Career Academy. The caller Maze field includes a refurbished media halfway and an aviation and automotive repair lab.

ACCA is not a accepted precocious school, alternatively students tin enroll for a fractional time greeting oregon day programme portion they stay enrolled successful their section precocious school.

There are 12 vocation programs offered that a pupil tin take from ranging from HVAC to Culinary Arts to Cybersecurity. Students tin besides take from 2 method certificate programs. The Infant Childcare Specialist certificate is simply a 1 twelvemonth programme and the Early College Essentials is simply a 2 twelvemonth program.

The Hutchinson Elementary task was besides an $8.4 cardinal renovation project. The gathering was upgraded to grow entree successful compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, a caller STEM laboratory and upgrades to information and proscription facilities.

APS invested $10.7 cardinal into the refurbishment of Humphries Elementary including a caller framing for the schoolhouse gathering and a caller STEM lab. The aged media halfway was converted to much schoolroom abstraction and the auditorium was converted into a caller media center.

The E-SPLOST backing for these projects was approved by Atlanta voters successful 2016 and is acceptable to expire successful June 2022. Fulton and DeKalb County voters volition person the enactment to renew the E-SPLOST astatine the ballot container connected November 2.