Fulton County school officials are holding a groundbreaking ceremony Friday to celebrate the construction of a new McNair Middle School.
Named after Ronald Ervin McNair, a physicist and NASA astronaut who died during the launch of the Challenger space shuttle, the school first opened as M.D. Collins High School in 1969 and later was changed to a middle school model in 1988 and renamed McNair Middle.
Due to its aging condition, the school is being rebuilt using SPLOST funds, the one-penny education sales tax approved by Fulton County voters.
Carl McNair, brother of the school’s namesake, will speak at the groundbreaking, scheduled for 1 p.m. at 2800 Burdett Road in College Park, and share reflections on McNair’s legacy to education.
The 187,100-square-foot school — when it opens August 2015 — will house more than 1,000 sixth- through eighth-grade students in a 77-classroom building.
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