Fulton County Schools broke ground Friday on a new Camp Creek Middle School, marking the start of a construction push that district officials expect to deliver a modern, 1,200-student campus in South Fulton by 2027. The groundbreaking took place at the school's site in Fulton County, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.
The replacement school is rising at 4345 Welcome All Road in College Park, within South Fulton County, according to the Fulton County School System. The new campus is designed to serve grades 6 through 8 and will include career and technical education classrooms, art and music studios, a media center with small-group rooms, a gymnasium with performance staging, outdoor learning spaces, and a five-lane athletic track. Atlanta-based general contractor Winter Construction is managing the build, with site development and foundation work having advanced through mid-2026.
How the Project Is Being Paid For
The replacement project is financed through Fulton County Schools' Capital Plan 2027, drawing on revenue from the 1% Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, known as ESPLOST VI, which Fulton County voters approved in November 2021. Procurement for the project moved through a multi-phase bidding process, with the district issuing an initial request for proposals for Phase 1 site preparation in April 2025 before following up with a second RFP for primary building construction in September 2025, per project records reviewed by HigherGov.
Camp Creek Middle School sits within Fulton County Schools' Learning Zone 3, where it serves as a primary feeder middle school for Westlake High School alongside Sandtown Middle School. The project is one of three full school replacement builds prioritized under Capital Plan 2027, alongside North Springs High School and S.L. Lewis Elementary School, the district's facilities planning shows.
Part of a Broader South Fulton Rebuilding Push
The Camp Creek project follows on the heels of another recent South Fulton overhaul. Fulton County Schools previously completed the replacement of Conley Hills Elementary School, which reopened under a new name, Briar Hills Elementary School, in August 2025. Camp Creek's rebuild continues that pattern of updating aging South Fulton campuses under the district's capital program.
District leaders had also previously considered Camp Creek Middle School as one of four possible campus sites for conversion into a K-8 STEAM Academy model, an approach aimed at reducing student mobility across South Fulton attendance boundaries. Palmetto Elementary was ultimately chosen as the district's first conversion site instead, leaving Camp Creek on track for its traditional middle school replacement.
A District Managing Modest Enrollment Declines
The new campus arrives as Fulton County Schools continues to operate as Georgia's fourth-largest public school system, serving an estimated 83,000 to 85,000 students across 101 schools for the 2026-2027 academic year. That figure reflects a gradual downward shift from close to 90,000 students in prior years, even as the district continues investing in new facilities like Camp Creek Middle School.
Specific answers on final construction costs, how traffic will be managed along Welcome All Road during the build, and the transition plan for current middle schoolers while work continues have not yet been detailed publicly. The district has targeted a 2027 opening for the new Camp Creek Middle School as construction moves forward.
