
The Fulton County Schools (FCS) Board of Education approved a $136.8 million contract Carroll Daniel Construction of Gainesville for the second phase of the new North Springs High School construction during its April 24 meeting.
“This project will consist of the construction of the new high school building, associated parking lots, driveways, running track, football field, softball field, tennis courts, hard skate, storm system, and utilities,” Chief Operations Officer Noel Maloof told the school board during a work session discussion at its April 17 meeting. “It also includes the demolition of the existing high school building once the new building is open.”
The school board approved setting aside $6.8 million as a contingency controlled by FCS.
Maloof said at the work session that the target completion date is December 2028. The new school building would be substantially complete by May 7, 2027 with the entire project substantially completed by Aug. 15, 2028. The project funding is from the education special local option sales tax, Maloof said.
Phase one of the project involved land disturbance to prepare the site and cost $15 million, Maloof said. Phase two of the project does not include furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E) or IT. Maloof said that those items will cost approximately $20 million.
Adding up the two phases, FF&E and IT will bring the total project budget to approximately $177 million, he said.
With the new school being built for 1,500 students and North Springs’ current enrollment at 1,100 students, board member Lillie Pozatek asked at the work session how the additional space would be used, what programs will be offered, and where FCS is in the process of determining uses for the additional space.
Maloof said North Springs has had a soft start in launching the Career Tech portion of the addition. Some programming is already being offered. When the new school opens it will not just include a traditional school, he said but will also include the north version of the Promise Career Institute (PCI) established in College Park.
Pozateck said she knows board members are big fans of PCI.
“On this side of the river, for example, we had several lots of students who wanted to go down to PCI, but the distance was just prohibitive of that,” Pozatek said. “So it’s good to hear that we’re going to be using that space to do something that will benefit our students here.”