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Cooper: Is the 20-plus year odyssey finally over for magnet school CSLA?

Staff File Photo / The expansion of the current Lakeside Academy may finally become the new home of the eventual K-12 mgnet school Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts.
Staff File Photo / The expansion of the current Lakeside Academy may finally become the new home of the eventual K-12 mgnet school Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts. Staff File Photo / The expansion of the current Lakeside Academy may finally become the new home of the eventual K-12 mgnet school Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts.

By Clint Cooper 5 min read

Students and parents at Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts may wonder if this is just another feint or if it’s the real thing.

Members of the Hamilton County Board of Education voted last week to build a new campus for the magnet school on the site of Lakeside Academy, which will be merging into Harrison Elementary School once its new building is completed in early 2021.

In the last several years, CSLA, currently located in a deteriorating structure on East Brainerd Road and promised a new building for more than two decades, was projected:

* To occupy a new building on its current site, which, with 36 acres, would be plenty large enough to accommodate it.

* To move into a renovated Tyner Middle Academy, which would be absorbed into a middle-high school on the Tyner High School campus across the street.