09/03/2026
Statesboro STEAM Academy Opens Its Permanent Home
A community that is attracting global industry has to answer one question above all others: can it grow the skilled workforce those employers will need? Statesboro answered part of that question with a building.
Statesboro STEAM Academy has opened a new campus at 531 E. Main Street, an approximately $7.5 million facility built specifically for the way its students learn. The state charter school, whose full name is the College, Careers, Arts, and Technology Academy, began the 2026-27 year with about 290 students and room to grow toward 400. Inside are flexible spaces designed for inquiry, real-world projects, engineering, technology, and student-led research.
Here is why that reaches beyond the classroom. Bulloch County is absorbing more than $900 million in new industrial investment and over 1,500 committed jobs. Every one of those jobs is, in the end, a bet on local and regional talent. A school purpose-built to let young people design, build, and present real work is part of our talent-pipeline infrastructure, as surely as any road, rail spur, or water line.
There is a difference, Principal Corliss Reese noted, between a place adapted to serve as a school and a place created for learning. The same holds for a community and its future: you can adapt to growth, or you can build for it. Congratulations to Reese, the students, the families, and everyone who believed in this school long before it had the space to match the vision. Economic development is not only about the companies that arrive, but also about the trained and skilled people who walk through their doors.
https://www.statesborosteam.org/
