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As enrollment falls, old schools find new life as apartments<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In a once-thriving neighborhood in the southeast part of Atlanta, Lakewood Elementary served families who came to work at the General Motors assembly plant, a sprawling 100-acre landmark that became a path toward economic mobility for entry-level workers. At its height in the late 1970s, the plant employed as many as 5,700 people.<\/p>\n

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But by the early \u201890s, when Gloria Hawkins-Wynn moved into the community, signs of decline were evident. The last Chevy Caprice rolled off the assembly line in 1990, and a popular antique market at the now-defunct Lakewood Fairgrounds shut down in 2006. The closure of the elementary school two years earlier further contributed to neighborhood blight, turning the abandoned structure into a hotspot for criminal activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get prostitution. We get drug dealing. We get drive-by shootings,\u201d Hawkins-Wynn told\u00a0a local news station four years ago. A neighborhood representative, she urged city leaders to turn the eyesore over to a developer.<\/p>\n

Former students begged the city to save the school, home to some of their earliest\u00a0memories: Dick and Jane books, dances in the auditorium, a principal named Mr. Hinkle. Still visible on the school\u2019s deserted playground is a faded map of the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease don\u2019t demolish it,\u201d wrote one woman. Walking to Lakewood with her mother, who died when she was 7, is a cherished memory.<\/p>\n

Now the old school is one of several in Atlanta\u00a0slated to become apartments.\u00a0It\u2019s a transformation that is increasingly taking place across the country as city leaders and developers look to give new life to vacant buildings once bustling with students and teachers,\u00a0The 74 reports.<\/p>\n

In 2024, nearly 2,000 apartments were built in former schools across the U.S., a record high and four times the number a year earlier, according to\u00a0an analysis from RentCafe, a property search website. School-to-apartment conversions are now the fastest growing segment of a niche industry devoted to makeovers of historic spaces.<\/p>\n

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As student enrollment\u00a0continues to shrink nationwide and more districts, including Atlanta, make the painful decision to close schools, the Lakewood project offers a glimpse of what\u2019s to come: Seventy-four school conversion projects are already underway across the country, RentCafe\u2019s data shows. With enrollment loss in traditional schools\u00a0expected to continue, districts will be left with even more surplus properties.<\/p>\n

Renovating existing structures \u201coffers a way to help those buildings continue on as community assets,\u201d said Patrice Frey, president and CEO of RePurpose Capital, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.<\/p>\n

For the first time since the Great Depression, renovation projects, including historic preservation, surpassed new construction in 2022, according to the\u00a0American Institute of Architects. Supply chain gridlock and \u201cthe rapid escalation of materials costs\u201d likely contributed to the shift, Frey said.<\/p>\n

The pandemic also played a part as parents chose charter schools or uprooted to other districts and states to find in-person learning. The rapid expansion of private school choice has also contributed to enrollment declines, school consolidations and closures.<\/p>\n

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Data from the Brookings Institution showed that between the 2018-19 and 2021-22 school years, 12% of elementary schools and 9% of middle schools lost at least one-fifth of their students. Many districts delayed closures in response to parents and generations of former students who pleaded with leaders to keep the neighborhood institutions open. Some districts,\u00a0like Seattle, are still putting it off.<\/p>\n

But maintaining underenrolled schools, especially those with just a couple hundred students, can be a financial drain. The\u00a0Houston,\u00a0Memphis-Shelby and\u00a0Cedar Rapids districts are among those that have recently announced or discussed closures. That means they\u2019ll eventually have to decide what to do with the buildings.<\/p>\n

An earlier Atlanta project, completed in 1999, offers a preview of what\u2019s in store for Lakewood and many other former schools.\u00a0 was redeveloped into Bass Lofts, a three-story structure that sits in a bohemian neighborhood known for vintage clothing stores, dive bars and record shops. Mallory Brooks, a photographer, moved into one of the units 10 years ago after relocating from Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first place I looked at, and I was definitely smitten,\u201d she said. Stepping through the main entrance, \u201cyou are transported immediately to being in a school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Old lockers, welded shut, line the ground floor hallways, and a large Depression-era mural of women dancing sits above the stage in the auditorium. While rows of seats remain intact, some tenants also use the space to store their bikes. Brooks appreciates how sunlight pours through the 10-foot-high windows \u2014 \u201cI\u2019ve been able to basically create a greenhouse in my apartment,\u201d she said. But regulating the temperature is difficult, and she looks forward to HVAC upgrades.<\/p>\n

\u2018Legacy residents\u2019<\/h3>\n

Lakewood Elementary is one of eight sites that the Atlanta Public Schools is now repurposing through an agreement with the Atlanta Urban Development Corp., a nonprofit arm of the city\u2019s housing authority that renovates historic properties into mixed-income residences. The plan, part of\u00a0Mayor Andre Dickens\u2019 pledge to increase affordable housing, includes giving teachers the first choice of apartments. That was important to Cynthia Briscoe Brown, a former Atlanta Board of Education member whose last vote in December was to\u00a0close or merge 16 schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeventy percent of APS employees do not live within the city limits of Atlanta,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of the board\u2019s priorities in developing these properties is to make it possible for our employees to not have to drive so far before their work day.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lawyer with experience in real estate, she took an interest in the dilapidated properties when she was first elected in 2013. But she also has personal ties to the site where Peeples Street Elementary, one of the eight former schools, once stood. Her father, Woodson Briscoe, attended the school, which sat just down the street from the boarding house, run by an aunt, where the family lived.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the Depression. They were a young couple with a family, and they couldn\u2019t afford their own house,\u201d she said. Today, as\u00a0real estate costs in the neighborhood climb, with some homes priced well over $500,000, families are facing the same problem. \u201cThe West End is gentrifying to a point where a lot of legacy residents are having trouble staying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018A pall over neighborhoods\u2019<\/h3>\n

Peeples Street closed in 1982.\u00a0The structure has been gone for 30 years, torn down after a fire left little worth saving.<\/p>\n

But some shuttered schools can sit vacant for decades, attracting crime and casting \u201ca pall over neighborhoods,\u201d Alyn Turner, a sociologist with Research for Action, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit, told a group of Atlanta leaders in February.<\/p>\n

In a hotel east of downtown, they gathered in a dining room to discuss ways to lessen the negative impacts of the upcoming closures on both students and the neighborhoods where they live.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople can experience a (school) closure as yet another signal of neighborhood decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alyn Turner, Research for Action sociologist<\/p>\n

Turner cited a\u00a0Pew study showing that between 2005 and 2013, 12 urban districts, including Atlanta, Chicago and Pittsburgh, sold, leased or repurposed 267 school properties, but still had more than 300 on the market.<\/p>\n

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School closures \u201ctend to concentrate in communities that have already experienced displacement and disinvestment,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople can experience a closure as yet another signal of neighborhood decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Gary, Indiana,\u00a0reporters examined a rising number of 911 calls near abandoned schools \u2014 an almost 600% increase between 2022 and 2024. They found fires, hundreds of requests for extra police patrols and 26 reports of \u201cshots fired.\u201d\u00a0 In 2015, a\u00a0Chicago teenager\u00a0was found dead in Emerson High School, a\u00a0former Gary high school. Four years later, three teenagers fatally shot a woman and\u00a0dumped her body in an emptied-out elementary school.<\/p>\n

Like any abandoned building, a boarded-up old school can \u201cprovide cover\u201d for criminals, according to\u00a0researchers at Arizona State University. Run-down, vacant structures can even escalate criminal behavior, they write, sending a message that no one owns or cares about the property.<\/p>\n

Maintaining former school buildings until they\u2019re sold or repurposed can make the neighborhood feel safer, Turner told the Atlanta group. But like Briscoe Brown, some participants said they worry about the opposite effect \u2014 gentrification that leaves some lower-income families behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you help the people who are still there?\u201d asked Femi Johnson, a senior director at Achieve Atlanta, a nonprofit that focuses on college access. \u201cCan it be a food bank? Can it be a community health center?\u201d<\/p>\n

In her hometown of Philadelphia, she saw the former Edward Bok Vocational School, part of a wave of closures in 2013, transformed into an event space with\u00a0a rooftop bar, a destination she felt didn\u2019t serve the community\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

Developers are drawn to former schools because of their historic architectural features, like wide hallways and stairwells. The former Monsignor Coyle High School in Taunton, Massachusetts, now\u00a0Coyle School Residences, boasts \u201csoaring ceilings\u201d and original windows.<\/p>\n

Tax credits for historic preservation can offset some of the costs of modernization, but come with restrictions on what developers can change and which \u201ccharacter-defining features,\u201d like a gymnasium, must go untouched, said Pittsburgh developer Rick Belloli.<\/p>\n

In 2022, his company, Q Development,\u00a0acquired Mt. Alvernia, a former Sisters of St. Francis convent and all-girls school north of Pittsburgh. He described the massive, 333-room main building, the Motherhouse, as \u201ca gloriously spectacular historic building\u201d with cast iron stairways and arched ceilings. But he\u2019s still navigating the approval process, and some developers, he said, avoid former schools because of those hurdles.<\/p>\n

\u2018Choice properties\u2019<\/h3>\n

Like Coyle and Mt. Alvernia, many of the school-to-apartment conversions are concentrated in the northeast and midwest. Columbus, Ohio, ranked first on\u00a0RentCafe\u2019s list of cities with the most school conversion projects.<\/p>\n

Next on the list is Cleveland, where the former Martin Luther King Jr. High School, in the predominantly Black\u00a0Hough neighborhood, was among those affected by more recent enrollment loss. In 2020, the district\u00a0closed the school, which had dropped to less than 350 students, and a Maryland-based developer\u00a0acquired the 11-acre site for $880,000.<\/p>\n

Last fall, knowing the building might be demolished, former students gathered to reflect and grab what mementos they could. Some cut strings off the basketball hoops, said Ronald Crosby, who attended in the late 1980s. Others took old library cards and team jerseys.<\/p>\n

Ronald\u2019s sister Johnetta Crosby has fond memories of the school. \u201cWe had teachers that took their time to make sure you learned,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you didn\u2019t have anything to wear, they made sure you did. If you couldn\u2019t afford to eat lunch, they fed you anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

D\u2019Angelo Dixon, who graduated in 2018, felt more conflicted. \u201cBlack stuff\u201d leaked from the ceiling, he remembered, and academically, he felt behind friends who attended other schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I went to college, I felt like I didn\u2019t know anything,\u201d he said. But he credited the school\u2019s career-tech program with inspiring him to work in health care. He\u2019s now a nursing assistant. At the alumni gathering last year, he headed for the art room to grab a ceiling tile he painted with his nickname, Delo \u2014 part of a senior class assignment.<\/p>\n

Some alumni hoped the developer, Kareem Abdus-Salaam, would save the building but that\u2019s not part of his vision for the new residential community, a mix of apartments, townhomes and retail space.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really want to just level the whole site and bring it up, almost like a phoenix rising from the ashes,\u201d he said. He expects to break ground this spring. \u201cThere are so many abandoned schools in this country that are sitting on choice properties.\u201d<\/p>\n

He does, however, intend to make use of the large stones that still border one corner of the property by crushing them into gravel for a quarter-mile walking trail that will wind through the development. Along that pathway, he plans to erect signposts with historical photos of the school so former students \u201ccan have some feeling of yesteryear.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Atlanta, the partnership between the school district and the city gives officials a say in what the developers preserve. They\u2019ll integrate the original Lakewood Elementary building into the overall design.<\/p>\n

With a strip of commercial properties on the corner, including a popular restaurant and coffee shop, Hawkins-Wynn, who still lives a few blocks away, hopes the redevelopment will spur even more investment in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

On a recent afternoon, the transition was obvious, but so were the obstacles in its path. As she walked the perimeter of the property, a construction crew put up plywood on a new home across the street. A few lots down, trash and discarded mattresses piled up on the curb.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why we need redevelopment,\u201d she said, pointing to the debris. \u201cIt\u2019s still shady around here, but it\u2019s changing like you won\u2019t believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This story was co-published with\u00a0<\/em>Next City.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story<\/em> was produced by\u00a0<\/em>The 74<\/em> and reviewed and distributed by\u00a0<\/em>Stacker<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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