Three South DeKalb schools will be in different places when school opens this fall.

DeKalb Elementary School of the Arts (DESA), DeKalb School of the Arts (DSA), and Elizabeth Andrews High School are being relocated to new quarters, but for different reasons.

The moves will cost the school system $10 million.

DESA, which was located at Hooper Alexander Elementary on Memorial Drive in Decatur, is now at Terry Mill Elementary in Atlanta.

DSA, which shared the old Briarcliff High School Building on North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta with the Elizabeth Andrews High School, has returned to its original home at Avondale High School in Avondale Estates.

Elizabeth Andrews High School is relocating to the Mountain Industrial Center in Stone Mountain, which will also house the school system’s new headquarters.

Pat Pope, the school system’s chief operations officer, said the relocations are being made to consolidate facilities and maintain a safe and healthy learning environment.

DESA’s move to Terry Mill, at a cost of $1 million, relocates from a building that is more than 70 years old to one that is 50 years old.

The money is buying them new bathrooms but none of the amenities – a stage for its arts productions, costume and music rooms – that the elementary performing arts magnet school needs to properly prepare its students.

Thomas Powell, the school’s principal, said they have already moved into the building but haven’t been able to unpack classrooms because the renovations are still under way.

On Wednesday, workers from Suwannee-based Talbot Construction Co. were at work on the cafeteria ceiling and walls. They also have to gut and rebuild the bathrooms, and the building’s aging roof needs to be replaced.

Powell said they are down to the wire but intend to have the building ready for the 550 students who have enrolled.

The DSA, which is the magnet high school for the arts, will be located in the Avondale campus’ two-story back building that houses the Kyle Theater.

It began there in 1985 as the DeKalb Center for Performing Arts at Avondale, and became the DeKalb School of the Arts in 1999.

Its relocation is being done at a cost of $3 million. Since May, work crews from Samples Construction SE LLC have been renovating the theater, classrooms and offices and painting the building’s hallways and working on the exterior.

Elizabeth Andrews High School, which is the school system’s alternative school, will join four other programs at the Mountain Industrial Center.

The Jim Cherry Learning Center, DeKalb Early College Academy, the school district’s administrative offices and school board offices are relocating there as well.

The Elizabeth Andrews High School’s $6 million move and renovation is part of a larger $31 million renovation project for the 262,000-square-foot center.