Grady Stadium

Grady Stadium
Construction
Grady

Location	Monroe Drive & 10 St. Atlanta, GA 30309
Owner	Atlanta Public Schools
Operator	Atlanta Public Schools
Capacity	6,500
Surface	FieldTurf
Opened	1948
Closed	Open
Demolished	N/A
Architect	Richard Aeck
Tenants
Atlanta Public Schools

Grady Stadium is an Atlanta Public School football stadium located in Midtown Atlanta, south of Piedmont Park. The stadium is one of two stadiums owned and managed by the Atlanta Public School (APS) system. It is the only high school stadium in APS that is located on the campus of a high school. The stadium was used as a training site for athletes during the 1996 Olympic Games, and occasionally hosts public practices for the Atlanta Falcons. Grady stadium was designed by Richard Aeck, and is considered a masterpiece of modern engineering expression.^[1] For the fall of 2009, Grady stadium was closed due to renovation. All games were played at Lakewood Stadium and the Georgia Dome. The renovation was completed during Summer of 2010. A new running track and synthetic turf field was installed. The synthetic turf is FieldTurf. FieldTurf is also installed at Lakewood Stadium, the Georgia Dome and many other high profile sports facilities worldwide.^[2]

References

Public schools in Atlanta

High schools	Carver Commercial Douglass Girls' Grady Mays North Atlanta South Atlanta M. H. Jackson Therrell Washington

Middle schools	Brown Bunche Coan Harper-Archer Inman Kennedy King Long Parks Price Sutton Sylvan Hills Turner Young

Elementary schools	Adamsville Beecher Hills Benteen Bethune Blalock Bolton Academy Boyd Brandon Burgess/Peterson Campbell Capitol View Cascade Centennial Place Cleveland Ave. Connally Continental Colony Cook Deerwood Academy Dobbs Dunbar East Lake Fain Fickett Finch Garden Hills Gideons Grove Park Heritage Academy Herndon Hill Hope Humphries Hutchinson Jackson Jones Kimberley Lin Miles Morningside Oglethorpe Parkside Perkerson Peyton Forest Rivers Scott Slater Smith D. H. Stanton F. L. Stanton Thomasville Heights Toomer Towns Usher-Collier Heights Venetian Hills Waters West Manor White Whitefoord Williams Woodson

Non-traditional schools	APS/CEP School Alonzo A. Crim Open Campus High School West End Academy

Charter schools	Achieve Academy of Atlanta Atlanta Charter Middle School Charles R. Drew Charter School KIPP Academy Neighborhood Charter School SIAT Tech High School BEST Academy C. S. King Academy University Community Academy

Sports facilities	Lakewood Stadium Grady Stadium

Broadcasting	WABE FM 90.1 WPBA TV 30.1

Seating capacity 6500

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