Austin Elementary
School in Dunwoody GA is only 43 years old, but due to changes imposed by the
Georgia legislature, it will be torn down and rebuilt 2 blocks away from its
current location and will cost $20 million. It will house 900 students from
Pre-K to 5th grade.
We moved to Dunwoody
GA in 1983. Our 6 children were ages 10 to 18. At that time, elementary schools
were grades 1 through 8. We lived 3 blocks from Austin Elementary, so our grade
schoolers could walk to school.
Located at 5435 Roberts
Drive in Dunwoody, Georgia, Austin has provided education for DeKalb County
students since its opening, September 2, 1975. Austin was constructed to
alleviate overcrowded conditions at Vanderlyn and Dunwoody Schools, and
initially was designed to serve grades one through seven.
In 1978 eight additional
classrooms were added as well as a kindergarten program. In 1985, due to the
closing of Dunwoody Elementary School, two hundred students and eleven teachers
joined the Austin student body and staff. In 1988 upon the opening of Peachtree
Junior High School, which housed grades seven through nine, Austin became a
kindergarten through sixth grade school. In 1995 Austin welcomed its first
pre-kindergarten class. As of September 1, 1998 the sixth grade students are
housed at Peachtree Middle School (formerly Peachtree Junior High School)
making Austin a pre-kindergarten through fifth grade school.
We escaped the chaos
of having to bounce our grade schoolers to multiple locations, but our younger
neighbors have suffered the death of “neighborhood schools” and they will now
suffer more multi-million dollar losses in wasted taxes.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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