The long awaited opening of Calvert County ’s new elementary school is finally here. Barstow Elementary School , will be ringing its bells and opening its doors for the first time on Wednesday (November 5).

Principal Donna House will be welcoming 487 students and 61 staff members to Calvert County ’s newest school.

Students will feel quite at home in their new surroundings and there should be no interruption in their learning schedules as students and teachers will be moving together to their new classrooms.

Calvert Elementary and Calvert Middle schools have done a wonderful job of sharing their facilities with the Barstow students, as they waited for their new school’s construction to be completed. The cooperative project has been a great example of what we can do when we all work together with a specific purpose in mind. Only, with the cooperation of staff, students and parents could such an undertaking have gone so smoothly.

Opening day at the new school is expected to go as smoothly as the last few months have. Everyone is well prepared and everything is in place. The Barstow staff has been working very hard since last Friday to make the move as easy and seamless as humanly possible.

Although, the staff and students of Calvert Elementary and Calvert Middle Schools will miss their counterparts, everyone is looking forward to the extra space that will be made available when the move is completed. Principal House expressed similar sentiments regarding the parting of the school families but she too is looking forward to the extra space that everyone will now enjoy, with the opening of the new school.

Calvert County Public Schools Press Release

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