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By Marcus Johnson
Muscogee County school board to vote Monday on combining Double Churches schools
Marcus Johnson
Marcus Johnson
Reporter · Columbus, GA
Marcus is a proud alumnus of Georgia Southwestern State University and has been covering education for the past 7 years. His work includes in-depth features on local schools, teacher initiatives, and student achievements.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The Muscogee County School Board is set to vote Monday on a proposal to combine Double Churches Elementary and Middle schools into one campus.Chief Operations Officer Travis Anderson presented the Double Churches Campus Replacement and Upgrade Project at this week’s school board work session. Anderson said the project has been in the works since November 2024.
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The board now has the opportunity to vote on it.Project detailsAnderson said an architect recommended in November 2024 that the two schools be combined into one campus.“They determined after reviewing the entire campus that the best thing to do would be to combine the two campuses as opposed to looking at them as one individual project,” Anderson said.The project is set to cost approximately $56 million.
It would be funded by a 2024 E-SPLOST referendum.The project includes a new elementary school, a new middle school gym and a new middle school athletic field.Challenges the project addressesAnderson said th
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