UPDATED:
The former Eastvalley ES site is being planned as a church for the Vietnamese Catholic community.
ORIGINAL POST:
The Cobb County School District has sold the former site of Eastvalley Elementary School on Lower Roswell Road.
The Cobb Board of Education announced on Thursday that it approved the sale of two parcels of land where the school once held classes for $4.275 million.
Board member John Cristadoro said after an executive session that the land has been sold to AoA Properties Holding Inc.
That’s a non-profit that handles property and real estate matters for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, which operates a number of private schools in the metro Atlanta area.
They include St. Joseph School in Marietta and Siena of St. Catherine School in Kennesaw. There are no Catholic schools in the East Cobb area other than preschools at the Holy Family, St. Ann and Transfiguration parishes.
East Cobb News has left messages with the Atlanta archdiocese seeking information.
The Cobb school district had been shopping the Eastvalley site since 2023, when the new campus opened on Holt Road on the former site of East Cobb Middle School.
The original Eastvalley building has 50,000 square feet and the property includes athletic facilities and an undeveloped wooded area.
Eastvalley opened on Lower Roswell at the intersection of Holt Road in the early 1960s. In its final years, the school was heavily overcrowded, and operated with trailer classrooms that were the subject of parental complaints.
Cristadoro said that the Cobb school district would be retaining control of two telecommunications leases on the property after closing.
The sale comes amid expansion and relocation of private schools in the East Cobb area. Mt. Bethel Christian Academy is in the process of moving off the campus of Mt. Bethel Church, and Eastside Christian Church, located next to the former Eastvalley site, is adding a high school.
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Correction: St. Catherine of Siena (in Kennesaw)