Photos by Deb Gau Southview Elementary School faculty and staff gathered around Friday as Marshall School Board chairman Jeff Chapman and Superintendent Jeremy Williams cut the ribbon at the school’s grand opening.
MARSHALL — It was the first time Marshall students had the chance to see inside the new elementary school going up near Southview Drive. Judging from the reactions at a Friday open house, they were impressed.
“Whoa,” said Madelyn Ortmann and Bentley Krull as they stepped into the media center at Southview Elementary. The girls looked up at the high ceilings and big windows that let in lots of light for reading.
“This is a really cool school,” McKenna Brunsvold said, after their group had toured through the library.
Marshall area residents, including plenty of families and kids, gathered to tour Southview Elementary at its grand opening Friday afternoon.
“This is an exciting day” for the school district, said Marshall superintendent Jeremy Williams.
Construction of the grades 2-4 elementary school began last year, and was made possible through a total $29.8 million building referendum passed by voters in 2019. Southview Elementary will replace the former West Side Elementary, which was built in the 1950s.
Also included in the 2019 building referendum was a building expansion for early childhood education at Park Side Elementary. MPS director of business services Dion Caron said an open house will also be held at Park Side in the future.
Speakers at Friday’s ribbon-cutting said the Southview Elementary project showed the importance of education to the Marshall community.
“This is an investment in our future, in education and in our young people,” said Marshall Mayor Bob Byrnes.
Southview Principal Peter Thor said he’s seen the care that Marshall teachers had for kids ever since he was an MPS student himself.
“Going into my 18th year of being an employee at Marshall Public Schools, I look at my staff — all 81 of them that make this school work and function. And I look at the kids who are going to go through it. I just want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for what you are giving them,” Thor told the audience. “Not all kids get to go through a school like this.”
Byrnes said the city of Marshall and Marshall Public Schools have had a good partnership in planning the school project. One example that Caron pointed out was that the city partnered with the school district to widen the sidewalks near Southview Elementary, and make them a safer bike route for students.
The new school building has 27 classrooms, plus features like technology labs and specialist rooms, said David Maroney, of architecture firm ATS&R. The building is about 367 feet long, and 180 feet wide through its academic wing, he said.
The classrooms and flexible learning areas in Southview are also equipped with some “pretty high-tech” features, teacher Bennett Appel explained to one tour group that visited his classroom. Each room has an interactive smart TV that classes will be able to use. “It’s going to be a benefit for students.”
Appel said it was “amazing” to get to move into the new school. “I couldn’t have asked for a better building as a second-year teacher,” he said.
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