CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — The conversion of Walker County’s old Osburn Elementary School into a center for professional learning, administrative and student services, and also for school transportation and maintenance departments is nearly complete.
Walker County Coordinator of Student Services Chris Chambers said the former school is still sound and offers lots of room for the system’s growing needs.
“We’re really anxious to get in it,” Mr. Chambers said.
The building will become the Advancing Education Center, and its central location in Chickamauga makes sense for the departments it will house, he said.
The system’s maintenance workers are doing most of the renovation work, though carpet and tile work was contracted out, he said. Most rooms are outfitted with high-efficiency heat and air units that can be turned on as needed to help keep utility costs down, he said.