With school ending this week, the current modular era at City Schools Decatur is slowly winding down.
All 12 modular units at Renfroe Middle School will be removed this summer thus restoring most of the playing field behind the school. Twelve more will get taken out of Decatur High leaving only four, plus the restroom modular.
CSD began this school year with 36 modulars total — the most in the district’s history. Last year Superintendent David Dude considered using Atlanta’s old East Lake Elementary as a temporary solution for CSD’s overflow, but then changed his mind. He hopes, however, to have all modulars removed by the 2019-20 year, when the new school on Talley Street is scheduled to open.
Next year, besides the four at DHS, there will be four at Oakhurst, four at the 4/5 Academy at Fifth Avenue and four new ones at Winnona Park Elementary, bringing that school’s total to eight. Winnona’s enrollment swelled to 434 this year. The building capacity, even counting two additions built in the last 15 years, is 293.
CSD’s Chief Operating Officer Noel Maloof said there are roughly 30 students living in Winnona’s zone who attend other elementary schools within the district.
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