Construction is complete at Neelsville Middle School, located at 11700 Neelsville Church Rd in Germantown, with students ready to return to school on Monday.
The new Neelsville Middle School was constructed on the same site as the previous school building. The old building will be demolished and replaced with recreational fields and other amenities to make up for similar facilities currently located where the new building has been built. The new facility added six classrooms for a master-planned capacity of 1,190 students.
Per the school website, Neelsville MS has a short but interesting history. The original facility was constructed in 1981; Martin Luther King MS used the building for fifteen years, then moved in 1996 to a new building about three miles away. The Neelsville staff and students moved into the facility in the summer of 1996, and the building got a fresh coat of paint and a new look to welcome the new occupants.
The name of the school was taken from a small community named Neelsville that used to exist in the area where the school now resides. Neelsville Middle School was dedicated to the students and community it serves on May 18, 1997. Neelsville in the Watkins Mill and Seneca Valley clusters of schools, with its students coming from South Lake ES, Stedwick ES, Clarksburg ES and Gibbs ES and going to Seneca Valley HS and Watkins Mill HS in the ninth grade.
🎉✂️ The ribbon is officially cut and Neelsville Middle School is ready for the new school year!!
Germantown families toured the space and registered for FARMS, ParentVue and Remind. pic.twitter.com/Saq0iWZYAQ
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