Rutherford School Building Plan Totals $402 Million

MURFREESBORO, TN — Over the next six years, Rutherford County expects to spend more than $400 million on school construction.

At a meeting of the county commission's Health & Education Committee Tuesday night, the school system's assistant superintendent for budget and finance laid out a capital spending plan that carries the county through August 2022.

Among the top priorities for the district — which added 1,036 students this year to reach a total of 43,692 children across 46 schools, using a total of 143 portable classrooms — is opening Rockvale High School by 2019, according to the Daily News Journal. The school on New Salem Highway will draw from Riverdale, Blackman and Stewarts Creek high schools.

The breakdown of the $402.1 million spending plan is as follows:

2016: John Colemon replacement building, $20.1 million; Roy Waldron addition, $4.7 million
2017: Rocky Fork Middle, $41.3 million; Smyrna Middle renovation, $11.7 million; David Youree renovation, $3.2 million; La Vergne and Smyrna High restrooms and concessions buildings for football stadiums, $1.5 million
2018: Rocky Fork Elementary, $30.2 million; Siegel High addition, $5 million; land for two schools in south Murfreesboro, $3.3 million; land for two north Murfreesboro schools, $3.5 million; land for three-school Almaville-area complex near Interstate 840, $4.8 million
2019: Rockvale High, $59 million; south of Murfreesboro elementary school, $28.6 million; land for elementary and middle schools off north Veterans Parkway area, $3.9 million
2020: Middle school off south Veterans Parkway, $44.7 million; middle school off Memorial Boulevard in north Murfreesboro, $43.9 million
2021: Almaville Road Elementary School, $29.8 million; Almaville Road Middle School, $45 million; Oakland Middle annex, $12.9 million
2022: La Vergne Middle addition, $5.2 million