The anticipated demolition of the southside’s long-neglected Forest Cove apartments will force the neighboring elementary school to shutter as families are uprooted to make way for its redevelopment.
Children living at the Section 8 community make up the majority of Thomasville Heights Elementary School’s student body. But the 211 households that remain at the 396-unit complex will soon be scattered to other low-income apartments, after an Atlanta judge condemed Forest Cove in December — an order its owner, Millennia Housing Management, is appealing.
Thomasville Heights Elementary, located at 1820 Henry Thomas Dr., will close at the end of the school year, and its students will be “temporarily rezoned” to T.H. Slater Elementary School, about three miles northeast, according to an announcement from Atlanta Public Schools (APS) on Feb. 26.
