Lakeview Academy breaks ground on its new middle school this morning.
The need for more classrooms has been apparent for quite some time as, according to R.K. Whitehead, the school has been capped at tuition for the past four years.
“This will allow us to have more room for kids to come,” said Whitehead, Immediate Past Board Chair and Building Committee Chair. “It’s just the next step in the future of this school.”
The new middle school will allow space for Lakeview to accept 40-60 more students and the old middle will take the third, fourth and fifth-graders with the third-graders getting their own lockers.
In order to keep the school’s desired classroom size at 15 students, Lakeview has been utilizing modular trailers. The trailers will remain at the school until Carroll Daniel Construction finishes the new building which is expected to be sometime in late July to early August in time for the new school year.
“(The new building) will give us the ability to continue to add academic programs,” said Head of School John Kennedy. “And most importantly to grow organically.”
A new engineering lab will also go in the new building.
Lakeview administrators met with some of their alumni in May, as they often do, who have graduated from Georgia Tech to help with the new lab and to increase the schools technology capabilities which includes five new tech classes added in June all the way from middle school courses to AP computer science.
