For Immediate
Release
For more information contact: |
April 14,
2008
Jay Dillon
(770) 426-3345 |
Lindley Sixth Grade
Academy Moving To Barnes Center Beginning In 2008-09
Rising sixth graders scheduled to attend the
Lindley Sixth Grade Academy this fall will have a school
building all their own. The program will be moved to the
Barnes Center, located at 1550 Pebblebrook Circle in
Mableton. The new location is three miles from Lindley
Middle School, where the Sixth Grade Academy has operated
this year as a school-within-a-school exclusively for sixth
graders. The move to its own facility will support the
school’s overall plan to create a small learning community
focused on student achievement.
The Lindley Sixth Grade Academy was
established prior to the 2007-08 school year to help provide
a smoother academic transition for the school’s sixth
graders. Principal Landon Brown heads the program that is
independently staffed and operates under its own budget –
independent from Lindley’s seventh & eighth grade school.
Moving to a unique location will provide students with a
more focused environment.
“Having our own building will create a
smaller learning community, which will benefit our students
academically,” said Brown. “It will help the administrations
of both schools manage their buildings more effectively.”
The Barnes Center is the former home of
Central Alternative School, which will be operated by a
private contractor for the 2008-2009 school year. The Barnes
Center is also the original location of Lindley Middle
School, before it moved to its current site on Veterans
Memorial Parkway in Mableton. The move will allow Lindley’s
seventh & eighth grade campus to eliminate 11 portable
classrooms.
Parents of rising sixth graders are invited
to attend an information session about the Lindley Sixth
Grade Academy on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. in the
Lindley Middle School theatre. The session will offer
parents and students an opportunity to learn about the
changes in store for the academy and ask questions about the
transition. Students from Bryant, Riverside, Clay and
Harmony-Leland elementary schools feed into Lindley.
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