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Year in review, #1: New elementary school opens its doors on Rockville PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 09:00
The culmination of a year and a half of planning and building came to life on Aug. 13 as Rockville Elementary School opened its brand new doors to kindergartners, first- and second-graders in Louisburg.

Louisburg USD 416 voters passed a bond issue in April 2006, authorizing the construction of the school at North Eighth Street and Rockville Road, northeast of town. The bond issue also authorized the district to complete renovations to Louisburg Middle School and Louisburg Elementary School (later renamed Broadmoor Elementary School) to help accommodate the exponential growth the Louisburg district had been seeing for the past few years.

More than 700 students in kindergarten through fifth grade were crammed into Louisburg Elementary School before Rockville was built, and the new facility allows for better classroom instruction and more comfortable students and teachers, proponents say.

The new building has a security entrance, directing every visitor to the school to flow through the main office before entering the remainder of the building. The facility also features a pod for each grade with room for up to eight classes in each pod. The pods also have a central collaboration space, energy-saving motion lights and technology wired rooms.
Natural light permeates most areas — the school’s library, cafeteria and pod areas — letting students experience the outside while still inside the building. Principal Becky Bowes also secured a $27,756 grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to help purchase recycled rubber tire mulch for the school’s playground.

USD 416 Superintendent Rick Doll said the beauty of Rockville is that the building was constructed so an identical pod addition can be added to the northern side when the district grows large enough, saving patrons money and the district time in choosing another school site.

Bowes worked with architects Hollis & Miller to design the building, and JE Dunn acted as construction manager. As promised, everything was complete on move-in day.

“I’ve always been able to draw something and be able to see it,” Bowes said. “­­... I couldn’t be any happier.”
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