Walker County Schools is putting into place new school zoning regulations for the county starting in the fall of 2013.
“Saddle Ridge School opening up is a brand new school, so we added a zone,” said Walker County Schools Director of Facilities and Operations Chris Jones. “The new zoning dealt with overcrowding at Cherokee Ridge Elementary School to get students out of portables and back into the main building.”
Initially, school officials thought the zoning would affect only a few schools, he said, but it ended up being district- wide. Cherokee Ridge, Rock Spring and Gilbert Elementary schools and LaFayette Middle School will all be affected.
“One big thing for Gilbert is we took the Cove students and brought them into Gilbert and out of Chattanooga Valley,” said Jones. “LaFayette Middle School will also have students from the Cove area. LaFayette Middle and Saddle Ridge will feed into LaFayette High School. Chattanooga Valley Middle School and Rossville Middle School will feed into Ridgeland High School.”
The new Saddle Ridge School being constructed in Rock Spring is scheduled to open in the fall of 2013 and will house grades K-8. The master plan also for calls for the building of Saddle Ridge High School sometime in the future.