Due to the early opening of

Whitewater High School next year at the LaFayette Educational Center,

the Fayette County School System has announced that it will implement

school boundary changes for secondary students at the beginning of the

2003-2004 academic year one year earlier than planned.

The boundary changes for middle

and high school, which were passed by the Board of Education last year,

were originally slated to go into effect during the 2004-2005 school year

to coincide with the opening of the new Whitewater High School being built

on Ga. Highway 85 South next to Sara Harp Minter Elementary. With the

school board approving the early opening of the high school at the LEC

next year, the new boundaries will now go into effect this summer at the

beginning of the 2003-2004 academic year.

The LEC is the old Fayette

County High School in the center of Fayetteville.

At a called meeting Aug. 5,

2002, the board voted in favor of the new high school opening in August

2003 and being housed at the LEC for one year prior to the completion

of the permanent facility. Ninth-grade students slated to attend Whitewater

will begin high school next year at the LEC and then move into the school's

new facility at the beginning of the 2004-2005 academic year.

The early opening of the school

will help to alleviate overcrowding at Fayette County and Starr's Mill

High Schools and will allow ninth-graders to start Whitewater High together

instead of attending another school for one year before switching to the

new one, according to school officials.

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