06-02-2025
New Silverhill Elementary School opens, old school to be transformed
SILVERHILL, Ala. (WKRG) — There is a different feel to learning these days at Silverhill Elementary School.
'They are just so happy to be here, and they tell us all the time,' principal Wendy Rodgers said.
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Four hundred eighty students almost seem lost inside the 137,000 square foot facility with all the bells and whistles.
'The technology, the size of the gym, the STEM classrooms, the seating in the cafeteria, this is all things that we never had before,' Rodgers said.
Classes started this week after a rare midyear move.
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'I wasn't going to have a $30 million school empty for five or six months, so we gambled on a midyear move, and it worked out,' Baldwin County Public Schools Superintendent Eddie Tyler said.
The new school is a far cry from the old one built in 1956 with all the problems of a nearly 70-year-old building, which will also be transformed, according to Tyler.
'It's going to be the only one of its kind that we know of, an early learning center Pre-K, and it's going to be beautiful,' Tyler said.
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The beauty of the new school is not lost on those who live here, but it is what is happening for students inside the building that is even better.
'They are totally locked in on instruction,' Rodgers said. 'It is just great!'
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