Clayton County Builds Open Campus High-Tech High School

Clayton County Public Schools are planning the Open Campus High School, a "high-tech high school" featuring the Magnet Technical Center. The new school will be built on the athletic training field at Jonesboro Middle School. The middle school will be renovated for the new high school. Slated to begin construction in 2004, the initial building, designed by Griffin, Ga.-based Manely Spangler Smith Architects P.C.,  is a 100,000-sf expandable facility that will house classes for students from eight other county high schools. Curriculum will include advanced computer, technical, and electrical instruction for students and adults as well as company employee training. Clayton College and State University in Morrow, Griffin Technical Institute in Griffin, and county schools will all contribute instructors and curriculum material for the project.