VIDEO: Former Mableton Elementary School Demolished

There wasn’t a crowd. There were no tears and no gasps when a single man operating a crane tore down the 60-year-old Mableton Elementary gym to the ground.

Behind all the rubble, bricks, splintered wooden gym bleachers of the gym and the school's obliterated ceiling tiles sits a state-of-the-art $17.9 million, 149,000-square-foot school, completed just in time for the new school year. 

The new school houses approximately 900 Mableton Elementary and former Sky View Elementary students, who were rezoned for the school as a result of recent redistricting.

Mableton Elementary marked the beginning of an education for a former Georgia governor, Roy Barnes, among hundreds of others.

On April 28 at , former students, parents, teachers and administrators descended upon the school to reunite, share memories, but mostly to say goodbye.

Mableton Elementary, originally just Mableton School, is one of the oldest schools in Cobb County, established in 1883 in a building owned by the Glore family.

What's left of Mableton Elementary will be demolished today.