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Marietta opens
new Park Street
Elementary School
The exterior of the new Park Street Elementary School in July 2020.
-Ryan Kolakowski
By Ryan Kolakowski
When Marietta City Schools
started their academic year
on Aug. 4, a new Park Street
Elementary School building
opened its doors to teachers,
even as students began
learning remotely.
Due to the pandemic,
Marietta Schools started
the year online only, but
teachers went to Park Street
Elementary “to get in there
and get their classrooms
set up,” according to Chuck
Gardner, the district’s chief
operations officer.
The new building, a threestory,
nearly 85,000-squarefoot
school, replaces the
old Park Street Elementary
School on the same lot. The
old building, demolished this
summer, was the oldest school
in the district, in use since
1942.
“This project was really
special because the old Park
Street Elementary was actually
one of the oldest buildings
in the district,” Gardner
said. “The history was really
important to the city, the
alumni and just a lot of people
that felt connected to that
school, but it was so old and
hadn’t been added on to, and
with the structural integrity of
it, there was no way to make
it meet the needs of us going
forward.”
Principal Diona McIntire
said it was exciting for her
to work on the new school
building with architects
and construction managers.
Teachers and community
members gave McIntire
feedback and ideas about what
to include in the new facility,
and the principal delivered
those ideas to the people
responsible for designing and
building the school.
“Our school has a very,
very rich history to begin
with, so to be able to kind of
lead the work and helping to
design and create a new part
of history for our community
was just an incredible
experience,” McIntire said.
The new school building, a
$16.5 million project funded
through 2018 bond proceeds
and the 1% Special Purpose
Local Option Sales Tax for
education, comes equipped
with 39 classrooms, a science,
technology, engineering and
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