In Georgia, one school with an eye-popping price tag opened its doors today. $147 million buys North Atlanta High School a 600-seat theater, a food-court-style cafeteria with a smoothie bar and more than 50 acres of athletic fields.
But here's another ... less impressive... number: North Atlanta has a graduation rate of only 60 percent.
School leaders hope this investment will help turn things around. Is that too much to ask of a building?
— marketplace.org
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The cost per sf on that school doesn't look that over the top... Just because the total tag was large doesn't mean anything. 50 million over budget? So they assumed a cost per square foot of $80/sf originally? Is construction really that cheap in the south?! Also if the high school district is anywhere like the one I grew up in, you can pretty much assume that the educational higher ups have their greedy little hands in the soup driving up costs. I swear Ive never met more corrupt people than inside the education industry.
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