By 1928, the original building was deemed no longer suitable for the white students; it was too small for the growing population and needed extensive renovation.

[citation needed] The school board then began a search for land closer to the Chaires Community.

In January 1986 for nearly $130,000 the board purchased the 27 acers of farmland immediately to the west of the existing Chaires School.

Due to the new and much larger attendance zone covering nearly all of the eastern portion of Leon County, the new Chaires school opened at 89% capacity.

In the fall of 1989, Buck Lake Elementary opened its doors on the land that was originally slated for Chaires.

While board members were hopeful that Buck Lake would help level enrollment at Chaires, this plan was unsuccessful.

With the opening of Roberts the entire northern portion of the Chaires attendance zone was nearly cut in half, no longer extending over 20 miles north.

[citation needed] In the years following the opening of Roberts, Big Chaires seemed to be receiving a fresh start.

[citation needed] In addition, overall student assessment achievement scores were ranking Chaires within the top 5 elementary schools in Leon County.

It was now, some nearly thirty years later, that Big Chaires would become a small rural community school as it had been prior to the need for a new bigger facility.

[6] Old Chaires [7] - V. L. Townsend, 1929-1930 - C. L. Clark, 1930-1936 (Died: December 1936) - Virgil Strickland, 1937-1941 - Phillip Covington, 1941-1944 - Mabel Hodgson-Hamilton, 1944-1949 - Joe Camp, 1949-1950 - C. E. Duval, 1950-1953 (Died: Spring 1953) - Ethel Ruff, Interim: Spring 1953 - C. Lee Moon, 1953-1956 - James M. Gilchrist, 1956-1959 - Floyd Davis, 1959-1961 - Roger Englert, 1961-1966 - Helen Nistendirk, 1966-1973 - Roberta Folker, 1973-1987 New Chaires - Dr. Jeff Patterson, 1987-2001 - Christine Moss, 2001-2008 - Michele Prescott, 2008-2021 - Richard Holmes, 2021–Present