The Deweyville Independent School District held a grand opening Thursday. The event celebrated the official opening of the beautiful new Deweyville Elementary School which will teach grades Pre-K through Fifth in the district.
Parents and students toured the new facility and were excited to see where their new classrooms will be. Teachers had their classrooms ready for instructions and greeted all the visitors to the campus.
The Deweyville Elementary School replaces portable buildings that were used after the previous elementary school was seriously damaged by floods of the Sabine River in 2016. During the interim there was not even a playground for the students at the elementary school except a parking lot.
Deweyville School Board President Luke Smith toured the school and was thrilled with it. “It’s a beautiful new school, these teachers have really gone out of their way to get everything opened up so we’re real excited,” Smith praised.
Lajuan Addison was the principal at the elementary school before her recent appointment as Deweyville’s interim superintendent. “I am from here, I was born and raised here, so this community is my community and I am right there with them so we are so blessed to have something like this in Deweyville. Everyone I’ve talked to that I’ve known for a long time said they never thought they’d see anything this nice here for our children,” Addison commented.
The Deweyville Elementary School was the featured attraction at the grand opening. Also, open to the public were the new Administration Building and the new Maintenance and Transportation Building.
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