The Rockwood School District is ready to show off the addition to Geggie Elementary School in Eureka.
A ribbon-cutting will be held from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, to commemorate the completion of the project. The community is invited.
The ribbon-cutting had been scheduled for Jan. 11, but bad weather postponed the event.
Principal Mary Kleekamp said students are already using the addition, which includes eight new classrooms and an expanded lunchroom.
“We moved into our new wing the week before the long break,” she said. “We have worked so tight as a building over the past five years or more – where there were multiple teachers in spaces. For the first time, we fit in our building and everyone has a place.”
The addition created a new wing that includes a new STEM lab for science, technology, engineering and math instruction; a second-grade classroom and a third-grade classroom; and all of the school’s kindergarten classrooms. In addition, the school’s library/media center, which was remodeled, is housed in the new wing.
The addition was funded with revenue from a $95.5 million bond issue voters approved in April 2017.