Parents, students and staff of the Clayton County charter school, Utopian Academy for the Arts, will rally at a county school board workshop at 6 p.m. Monday to fight to remain in their building.

The school rents the building from the school board. Utopian Academy administrators say Utopian, in Riverdale, has been asked to pay $1.5 million to buy the school or leave the building at the end of the school year.

“We have been told that they want to demolish the building if we don’t purchase it,” said Sharon Daniel, board chair for Utopian Academy.

Utopian Academy, in its second year, educates more than 200 students in grades 6 to 8. The school provides a core curriculum and also classes in music, dance, visual arts, culinary arts, broadcasting and video editing.

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