Ribbon Cutting Celebration Held for Davis-Edwards-Harris Educational Complex

More than a hundred people gathered Friday, May 10, 2024, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new ESPLOST-funded 6-12 Multicampus in Garden City.  The expansive school facility newly named the Davis-Edwards-Harris Educational Complex, will be home to Mercer Middle School and Groves High School students starting this summer when school resumes on August 1st.

The new facility is close to 400,000 square feet in three stories and has a capacity of 2,400 students.  The campus includes state-of-the-art technology, a digital media lab, CTAE labs for aviation and logistics as well as business and family consumer sciences. An extensive solar array will produce approximately 30% of the school's power needs.

The school boasts two cafeterias (with a single kitchen), two media centers and two gyms, one each for high school and middle school. In addition, an athletics complex will be built on campus, including a football stadium with a field house and a competitive track & field area, multipurpose soccer fields, a high school baseball field, a high school softball field, a little league field, and more.  

The campus also features a two-story, 750-seat auditorium with a full-scale performance production stage. Three paved parking lots with a capacity of more than 660 parking spaces will serve the facility.  The facility was funded by the one penny sales tax in Chatham County at a cost of approximately $150,000,000.

See more photos from the event here.