| GROUND BROKEN FOR NEW SPRING HILL SCHOOL |
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School Board members and County
officials break ground on the
newest Williamson County School in Spring Hill.
Landowner
Bud Mitchum and his wife look on.
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  School board members, district employees, and other dignitaries
were on hand July 25 to break ground at Williamson County’s
newest elementary school in Spring Hill. The school
district bought the 21 acre site off Commonwealth Drive from Bud Mitchum. The
site features views of the
area’s rolling hills and natural beauty. The district’s 37th
school is being built to deal with increasing
population, and to help ease overcrowding at nearby Chapman’s
Retreat and Heritage elementary schools. The new school
will have 120,000 square feet on two stories, 42 classrooms, and
a new state of the art geothermal energy system. It is scheduled
to open for the start of the 2007-2008 school year. |
Naming the new Spring Hill school is a group effort, and the
School Board is looking to the public for help. A special
naming committee formed by Superintendent Rebecca S. Sharber is
taking suggestions for the new school through August 8. The
committee will then narrow down the list and present it
to the school board. Board members will then make a final
decision on the school’s name at its meeting on August 21. You can call or email the committee with
your ideas. Send your ideas to
newschool@wcs.edu, or call 472-4030.
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Overlooking the new elementary
school site off Commonwealth Drive in Spring
Hill. |
| PROGRESS MADE ON SCHOOL ADDITIONS |
   
The two new wings on Heritage
Middle School will be ready to go
when classes start on August 14. |
Groundbreaking on Spring Hill’s newest
school isn’t the only dirt being thrown around in the
area. Major progress has been made on the addition
to Heritage Middle School on
Columbia Pike in Thompson Station. The project adds eight
classrooms to Building Wings B and C. The classrooms will
model the existing rooms and exterior. Facilities Director
Kevin Fortney says the rooms should be complete by the start of
school on August 14. The project's budget is $1.6 million,
which includes all furniture and fixtures. |
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Further north on Columbia Pike, things are also looking good at Winstead Elementary in Franklin. Construction
crews have added four classrooms to the school's center wing.
Like Heritage Middle, the classrooms model the existing rooms
and exterior. This project's budget is $1 million and also
includes furniture and fixtures.
 Williamson County
Schools has also closed on the purchase of land for the new
Nolensville Elementary School. Bids for the project are
scheduled to begin August 24. Construction will follow
immediately after the bids are awarded. This new school
will be modeled after the new elementary school currently under
construction in Spring Hill.
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The new addition at Winstead
Elementary School. |
