Sugar Creek Elementary School will absorb the elementary students of West Limestone High School and Owens Elementary School when it opens in August, but Owens is not going away.
Limestone County Schools Superintendent Tom Sisk says it will become the headquarters for the district's virtual school program as well as house some new and existing career tech programs.
The Athens News Courier reports another addition will be the introduction of a bluegrass academy, providing Limestone County students the opportunity to learn a bluegrass instrument.
Other career tech programs will include advanced robotics and cyber security. Sisk says moving these programs to the Owens campus frees up much-needed space at the county's tech school, where work is about to get underway on an expansion of the auto collision program.