A Month Before Final Closure, Chapman Intermediate Plans Celebration

As the Chapman Intermediate School prepares for its final weeks inside their facility, the community will soon honor the school's legacy with a celebration.

The celebration will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday April 25 at the school's cafeteria. The public has been invited to attend the celebration.

The facility will close at the end of the school year and become part of the Etowah High School campus. Chapman Intermediate has hosted fifth- and sixth-grade classes since 2000.

However, with the construction of the new E.T. Booth Middle School, rising fifth-grade students will remain at their elementary schools while rising sixth-grade students will move into the new Booth facility.

Chapman originally opened as an elementary school in 1974 and housed grades first through eighth. The school lost its seventh- and eighth- grade students when Booth Middle was constructed in the 1980s. 

A large two-story classroom building was later added to the Chapman campus in 1990 to accommodate the climbing enrollment.

However, during the 1998-99 school year, the decision was made to transition the school for just fifth- and sixth-grade students who would come from Bascomb, Boston and Oak Grove Elementary. 

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