Ringgold puts off middle school site

Ringgold School Board did not pick a new middle school site during Wednesday night’s school board meeting.
The board had discussed four possibilities during a work session Monday and said a vote might occur Wednesday night.
School board President Denise Kuhn said the board instead directed the architect to pare down the building project to reduce costs.
Depending on the site, architects estimate building a new middle school to cost between $38.3 million and almost $46.3 million.
HHSDR architect Matthew P. Franz told the board during Monday’s work session that the way to reduce costs is to reduce the square footage of the building.
The square footage for the proposed buildings is 150,000, while the square footage of the existing middle school is 110,000.
Three of the sites are around the high school, and the fourth is building a new school at the existing middle school site by building onto the auditorium.