McGaheysville Elementary School

During that year, McGaheysville Male & Female Academy was constructed and located at a site on Town Hall Road (Va. 843) across from "Town Hall."

During the year 1881 the school name was changed to Oak Hill Academy and would remain so until the construction of a new school which began in 1907.

Forty-one years of expansion and growth brought an end to the usefulness of the combined elementary and high school. In 1950, Montevideo High School was built incorporating the high schools of the following communities: Grottoes, Keezletown, McGaheysville, and Port Republic. In June 1950, the last senior class of McGaheysville High School graduated.

McGaheysville Elementary School was organized with grades one through seven until 1964 when Montevideo Intermediate School opened. On January 7, 1968, the proud structure of McGahyesville Elementary School was destroyed by fire.

For slightly more than a year, pupils attended school in the United Church of Christ and the Methodist Church. Nielsen Construction Company of Harrisonburg was awarded a $481,153.00 contract to build a new fourteen-room elementary school in McGaheysville. The new building housed classrooms, cafeteria, kitchen, teacher's lounge, and a health clinic.

McGaheysville Elementary School presently contains grades pre-kindergarten through five. An addition and renovation was completed in July 1995 at a cost of approximately four million dollars.