Chattahoochee Technical College - Locations

Locations

There are now eight campus locations north and northwest of Atlanta. The main campus is located in south Marietta, near Fair Oaks, between South Cobb Drive (Georgia 280) and Sandtown Road (33°55′44″N 84°33′18″W / 33.929°N 84.555°W / 33.929; -84.555 (Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta main campus)Coordinates: 33°55′44″N 84°33′18″W / 33.929°N 84.555°W / 33.929; -84.555 (Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta main campus)). It has since added three buildings on the west side of Sandtown Road, and an earlier one on the south side of Beech Road at the corner of South Cobb Drive.

Its three original additional campuses are: Mountain View (northeast Cobb; 34°02′03″N 84°28′04″W / 34.0343°N 84.4677°W / 34.0343; -84.4677 (Chattahoochee Technical College, Mountain View satellite campus)), South Cobb (Mableton/Austell; 33°48′56″N 84°36′00″W / 33.8156°N 84.6°W / 33.8156; -84.6 (Chattahoochee Technical College, South Cobb satellite campus)), and Paulding (Dallas; 33°54′39″N 84°49′35″W / 33.9107°N 84.8263°W / 33.9107; -84.8263 (Chattahoochee Technical College, Paulding satellite campus)).

The Paulding campus was dedicated in November 1996. A second building was constructed in 2009, and dedicated on October 13, with keynote speaker Glenn Richardson.

The Mountain View campus was donated to Cobb County by the family of the late Frank Gordy, proprietor of the famous restaurant The Varsity in Atlanta. Specified for educational use, the county supplied the land and most of the construction money for the building, which was dedicated to the county commission in 2000 and opened for class that October, and was transferred to the state in 2009 after having been leased for a dollar a year. It shares a parking lot with the adjacent Mountain View Aquatics Center, an indoor public swimming pool run by the county. The remainder of the formerly forested land was sold and developed in the 1990s for strip malls and upscale tract housing. The school's address is on Frank Gordy Parkway, a loop which allows access to these developments, but whose street signs all indicate only "Gordy Parkway".

The South Cobb campus was renamed the Austell campus in spring 2010. It consists of two one-story buildings on Tech Center Drive, and its address is on Veterans Memorial Drive (U.S. 78/278 & Georgia 8), which was originally the historic Bankhead Highway.

The Woodstock campus is located in the former Woodstock Elementary School (historically the all-grades Woodstock School, the town's first public school), and was the second campus of Appalachian Tech.

Through June 2009, graduation ceremonies were held only in June and September, and were at the Mable House amphitheatre in Mableton. The December 2009, due to the growth of the graduating class, the graduation ceremony was held at the Cobb Galleria Centre; in June 2010 it was held nearby at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

Enrollment by campus for fall 2009, compared to the previous year:

• Marietta: 5,428 (+38.1%)
• North Metro: 3,284 (+33.8%)
• Appalachian: 1,013 (+44.7%)
• Paulding: 994 (+18.9%)
• Mountain View: 958 (+34.4%)
• Woodstock: 437 (+49.1%)

3,500 students registered for classes at multiple campuses. The Austell campus was closed for the quarter for renovations, so that most of the medical programs could be moved there.

A new campus in Canton is now open at Bluffs Technology Park (approximately 34°16′25″N 84°28′15″W / 34.2735°N 84.4707°W / 34.2735; -84.4707 (Bluffs Technology Park)) and opened for winter quarter 2011. Gilmer (north of Pickens) is the only county within the school's official service area that does not have a campus of its own.