Monday is an asynchronous learning day in the Cobb County School District, meaning students will be instructed remotely as their teachers have staff development sessions.
Cobb County School District officials are using the occasion to formally celebrate the opening of two new school facilities.
One of them is the new Eastvalley Elementary School, which will have a ribbon-cutting event starting at noon on Monday.
The Cobb school district said the festivities include a flag raising by cadets with the Wheeler High School Air Force JROTC.
The Eastvalley chorus will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” and principal Dr. Whitney Spooner and Superintendent Chris Ragsdale will be the featured speakers.
There also will be tours of the 150,844-square-foot, two-story building, which is located on the former campus of East Cobb Middle School (380 Holt Road).
The new Eastvalley opened to students on Oct. 2, following the fall break, at a cost of $36.7 million in Cobb-Education SPLOST V funds.
Eastvalley opened in 1960 on Lower Roswell at Holt Road but has been chronically overcrowded for several years, with more than 700 students enrolled in a facility designed for 400.
Many of them were in aging portable classrooms that were the subject of parental complaints.
The new building includes 61 classrooms with a capacity for 962 students. Car and bus parking areas are separated, and there’s an outdoor classroom in a courtyard.
There are two “playscapes” and a large playfield surrounded by an asphalt walking track.
The other ribbon-cutting is Monday at 10 a.m. at the new Betty Gray Middle School in Mableton.
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