Beach High School faculty, students and alumni celebrated the long-awaited completion of the new education sales tax-funded campus construction Thursday.
The dedicated Beach High community said goodbye to the beloved old campus, which was built in 1950, and cut a blue ribbon to mark the opening of the new 200,000-square-foot facility featuring a new gymnasium, an open air plaza and an Allied Medical Health Academy.
The Beach High campus replacement project, which began in 2011, will cost more than $44 million when the second phase — a parking lot and ball field — is fully completed in January.
“Let us work together, doing our part to move Alfred Ely Beach High school from great to the greatest high school in the Savannah-Chatham public school system,” said school board member Irene Hines, who represents the 5th District, where Beach High is located.
“Go Bulldogs! Go!”