Lemon Street School Lives Again As Performance Learning Center

MARIETTA, GA — An elementary school once attended primarily by black students that closed nearly half a century ago will be rehabbed and reopened by next year.

The Lemon Street Grammar School will host students in the Marietta City School System’s Performance Learning Center starting in 2021. The center offers a flexible schedule to students who may have jobs or children.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Marietta’s school board on Tuesday awarded Parrish Construction a $3.48 million contract to renovate the school. The facility will be improved throughout, with all plumbing, electrical systems, doors and windows to be replaced.

Lemmon Street Grammar School opened in 1951 and closed 20 years later. It later became a library that closed in 2013. Since then, the building has been used for storage.

Eventually, Marietta will build a school-system central office building across the street where Lemon Street High School once stood. That building was demolished in 1967.