Work on Orange Beach school campus continues

As Baldwin County students return to school Aug. 14, construction on a new Orange Beach high school and middle school campus continues.

Orange Beach and unincorporated Baldwin County students who are juniors and seniors this year will remain at Gulf Shores High School during the 2019-2020 school year. Gulf Shores’ split off from the county system and created its own system this year.

Orange Beach and unincorporated Baldwin County students entering kindergarten through the 9th grade will remain within the Baldwin County School System and 10th grade students were given the option to attend Orange Beach or Gulf Shores high schools.

In Orange Beach, county students attending 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grades are attending school inside portable classrooms - a system being called a modular village because it’s completely enclosed. That will serve as a temporary campus next to the elementary school during the 2019-2020 school year.

The new middle and high school is scheduled to be operational in the 2020-2021 school year.

Orange Beach and county school officials in May 2018 kicked off the construction project for the new school along Canal Road, which is part of a $40 million dollar project and 101,000-square-foot educational complex that will house the middle and high school students. The project is a joint venture paid for by Baldwin County and Orange Beach.