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Groveland High's Future
LATEST DETAILS
The Groveland Historical Society, accompanied by some of the Groveland City Council members and other supporters, attended the Oct. 27 Lake County School Board meeting and asked that the school system consider saving about 8,500 square feet of Gray Middle School, (formerly Groveland High School), instead of demolishing most of it as currently planned.
If you have any questions, call Groveland Historical Society President Marie Padgett, 352-429-2945.
The Lake County School planners had announced that they planned to save the front facade of the former Groveland High.
To see the master plan for the new middle school, click here. However, those plans have changed.
Here are more details about the construction plans:
1. $32 million has been alloted for the construction of the new middle school.
2. Demolition of buildings in the Davis Elementary area (near Magnolia Street) will probably begin December 2008. A three-story classroom building will be constructed in this area and extend north toward the auditorium.
3. The existing auditorium will remain. Good news, since middle schools don't rate auditoriums in new schools being built today.
4. The current Ag Department Building will remain.
5. The main entrance of the middle school will be on the SW corner of the campus (facing Magnolia Street).
6. The current lunchroom and library will be demolished.
7. The new administrative offices will be in a new building west of the big three-story classroom building already mentioned.
8. The building that served as the science wing back in the 1960s will remain.
9. The current gymnasium (on E. Cherry Street) will remain and will become the new lunchroom/cafeteria.
10. The front wall (with the "1937" inscription) along with the attached classrooms and office are now planned to be demolished.
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