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Remember April of 2020 when the Jackson-Madison County School Board, the Madison County Commission and the Jackson City Council got together for ceremonial ground-breakings at Jackson-Central Merry and University of Memphis at Lambuth campuses?
It was an unusual time because the COVID-19 pandemic had just shut schools and large gatherings down, but the school board had just hired Marlon King as its next superintendent, and he was nearly three months away from taking over the district’s leadership.
A good number of people showed up for the ceremonies, and it was a nice symbolic time as King posed for photos with former superintendent Eric Jones and the interim between Jones and King, Ray Washington – kind of a past, present, future kind of thing.
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A year ago, workers started the long-anticipated construction of the new Madison Academic High and renovated Jackson Central-Merry High with plans for an August 2021 opening, which is now less than four months away.
Registration has filled around 700 seats at the 6-12 grade JCM that’s been closed since May 2016 just as Madison Academic accepts hundreds of students from its randomized lottery. Last school year, Madison had more than 400 students, but the new school’s capacity is for 600 students.
The agreed-upon completion date, which hasn’t changed despite the pandemic, is July 31 – two days before school starts.
As Crocker Construction works overtime to get the projects done, Jackson-Madison County School System leadership prepares for the schools’ opening, and board members – who were a part of approving the public-private partnership to construct the schools – express their excitement and eagerness, even more so after the March 30 tour of the facilities.