While Cobb students and teachers will be on fall break next week, some Cobb County School District employees will be busy moving desks, books and the other belongings of Eastvalley Elementary School to its new campus.
Cobb school district officials confirmed this week that the new campus, located on Holt Road, will be open for classes and other activities on Monday, Oct. 2.
A district spokeswoman told East Cobb News that there will be a formal ribbon-cutting on Oct. 16 but offered few other details about the resumption of classes at the new facility.
John Floresta, the district’s chief strategy and accountability officer, told East Cobb News Friday that “the new building is on schedule to begin classes after fall break.”
Eastvalley was to have begun the 2023-24 year at the new campus, but in May the district said that would be delayed due to supply chain issues.
At the start of the school year, Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said it was the district’s intent to meet that fall break deadline.
The $36.7 million Eastvalley campus is located across from Wheeler High School, on the former site of East Cobb Middle School.
Construction began in the spring of 2022 on a two-story building with 136,110 square feet and 61 classrooms, with an expected capacity of around 960 K-5 students.
It is replacing a more than 60-year-old facility on Lower Roswell Road that has been overcrowded for years, with more than 700 students occupying a campus designed for 400.
Parents have complained about aging trailers that have been used to handle the overcrowding.
The Eastvalley fall festival, organized by the school’s PTA and volunteer foundation, also is scheduled to take place at the new campus on Oct. 6.
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