If you’re a Sprayberry High School graduate, you’re invited back to your alma mater next week for a final “walk-through” of the main classroom building that will soon be giving way to a new facility.
School officials have scheduled what they’re calling an “Alumni Walk” next Friday from 4-6 p.m., before the Yellow Jackets’ varsity basketball games.
In addition to the final “SWARM” there will be refreshments for the attendees.
The Sprayberry campus at Sandy Plains Road and East Piedmont Road opened in 1973, just as suburban growth in East Cobb was on the rise.
That was a year before Walton High School opened, and in recent years Walton and Wheeler have had replacement classroom buildings constructed.
Sprayberry parents lobbied for a rebuild in 2021, and it was added to the Cobb Education SPLOST VI project list that was approved by voters.
That new six-year extension of the one-percent sales tax began collections on Jan. 1, and the Cobb County School District will soon take out a $100 million loan against that tax for 2024 to begin major construction projects.
Sprayberry has been a top priority on that list, and the estimated project cost is $67 million, and will follow ongoing construction of a new Career, Technology and Agricultural Education building and a new gymnasium.
The new classroom building will have 99 classrooms, administrative and guidance offices and a learning commons.
In a recent note to the Sprayberry community, principal Sarah Fetterman aid that 39 classrooms will be moved to modular units in the school’s main parking lot, and that entrance will be closed starting in the spring semester.
Other details of rebuild logistics and a contract for the construction project are still being formalized.
A special Facebook page has been set up for updates on the rebuild.
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