LAWRENCEVILLE — Situated in a busy traffic corridor between Old Norcross Road and Ga. Highway 316, Gwinnett’s next new high school is a visible sign that growth in the county has returned.
Projected to one day welcome 2,000 students, the yet-to-be-named Berkmar/Central Gwinnett relief cluster high school at 2136 Old Norcross Road is scheduled to open in August 2015, with between 700 and 900 students. As construction crews from the Carroll Daniel Construction Company of Gainesville progressed in recent days as the temperature plunged, one of the benefits of working under an existing roof — being out of the weather — was revealed.
The largest building project ever by Gwinnett County Public Schools is designed to provide students creative instructional programs not seen in a typical high school, said Danny Jardine, chief operations officer.
This is the eighth recent new school that Carroll Daniel has constructed in the district, and the company also completed three additions to existing schools.
The price tag, $63.5 million, was $602,000 lower than the next lowest bidder, but is more than recent new schools such as Lanier High ($50.7 million) and the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology ($35.4 million), which both opened in 2010.
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