High Tech? Meet Barrow Elementary 2.0
Opening this fall, the new David C. Barrow Elementary School will hold a few surprises.
The redesigned, expanded and renovated school will open in August.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Barrow Elementary School Renovation Taking Shape in Athens, Ga.
These are not the final renderings of the project, officials said.
David C. Barrow Elementary is undergoing a tremendous change. Students were moved to the old Gaines Elementary this year so that construction could move ahead full steam. Much of the old school has been torn down, and architectural details, like the rotunda, have been saved and improved. The construction project is expected to be finished in time for the 2013-14 school year, which starts in August.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Barrow PTA Looks At Plans For New School
Barrow Elementary School parents look at drawings for a renovation project slated to begin this spring, pending voter approval of a 1 percent sales tax in November.
At a Parent Teacher Association meeting Tuesday, parents got their first glimpse of a plan to rebuild and expand Barrow Elementary as part of several sales-tax funded projects Clarke County School District officials have proposed over the next five years. School officials will ask voters on Nov. 8 to extend another 1 percent sales tax, known as SPLOST IV, to cover the cost of building a new school, as well as other renovation and technology upgrades needed throughout the district. If the measure passes, Barrow students will have larger classrooms and hallway space. Preliminary plans include a kitchen and lunch room that's twice the size of the school's old cafeteria with room for a stage, more parking space and two playgrounds. Since …
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Nancy Zechella
3:23 pm on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
I will gladly vote for SPLOST if the monies go to improve our local schools. Maybe then our property taxes will not increase. more ›