Bob Best, Unum executive vice president of global servicesA proposed high-tech Hamilton County high school could hold 300 students on the campus of Chattanooga State Community College.
The county aims to apply for about $1.8 million in state grant funding to open a Science, Technology, Math and Engineering, or STEM, school here next fall.
At a meeting Thursday night, organizers said they plan to put the new STEM school in part of the former Olan Mills building next to the Chattanooga State campus and bought by the school in 2010.
The school would add 75 freshmen each year, reaching 300 students by its fourth year, officials said. Parents planning the school said it would use buses to draw students from all areas of the county.
“Students from all different walks of life need to be in this school,” said Tracey Carisch, one of the parents working on the STEM initiative.