Superintendent: Annexation Would Require Building Another School or Campus Expansion
Decatur Metro | January 31, 2014From the county-by-county section of Friday’s AJC…
Decatur Schools Superintendent Phyllis Edwards said that given the city’s renewed focus on annexation, “It looks to me we’ll have to build another school or build on an existing campus.”
Last spring Decatur schools projected that total enrollment would swell to over 6,000 by 2018, but Edwards admitted those numbers are now outdated.
Neither annexation nor the city’s at least five planned mixed-use developments figured into those original projections.
Edwards added the only existing campus with room to build is Winnona Park Elementary. Bill Banks for the AJC