The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the campuses will be built in the Gibbs and Hardin Valley communities.
The county is building the schools as part of a budget agreement approved in June 2015 between county and school district leaders. The Intragovernmental Memorandum of Understanding states that the county will build the Hardin Valley school at a cost not to exceed $34.5 million, and the Gibbs schools at a cost not to exceed $30 million.
The agreement also calls for both construction projects to use a design-build process. The planned capacity for the Hardin Valley campus is 1,200 students; the Gibbs school would have a capacity of 800 students. The schools are scheduled to open in 2018.
Plans to build the schools are moving ahead despite a federal investigation into allegations by the Knoxville chapter of the NAACP that construction of a new Gibbs Middle School could "re-segregate" schools.
