Mary Dell schools? In the 1960s and early 1970s the smaller school was known as Peterson Elementary, and the bigger school right across from it was known as East Atlanta High school. They were excellent schools in there time. The high school was like 700 students with excellent teachers.
That's them. The Peterson one still has the sign up, but has another sign that says adult education. The former high school looks to be shuttered, or being used for administrative purposes. Both have been empty every time I've gone by.
APS has been on break since Dec. 21. Tomorrow is the first full day back. Looks like there's a lot of open space behind the old high school. If residential real estate wasn't in free fall, I wonder if APS would be looking to sell it and if a developer would want to build stuff there. I'd assume just residential given its location, but also assume multi-family might be in play.
The old Peterson Elementary is used for GED students I believe. Its almost entirely young black males and females that get off the bus every morning at Bouldercrest/Mary Dell. The old East Atlanta HS is the South Metro Program which has special needs students. They have both been their current situation for about 3 years. Before that they were both used as temp locations for schools all over the city undergoing renovation.
I don't care for Fayetteville south of I20 much mostly because of traffic. It also gets much more sketchy the closer you get to the Bouldercrest/Fayetteville, Brannan, Eastland merge at the Murder Texaco. Thats a pretty bad spot overall.
