In 1908, McGaheysville High School was built on the present site, combining the elementary and high school. The new school incorporated the small one-room schools from the surrounding countryside. Forty-one years of expansion and growth brought an end to the usefulness of the combined elementary and high school. In 1950, Mondevideo High School was built incorporating the high schools of the 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 McGaheysville 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. Neilsen Construction Company of Harrisonburg was awarded a $481,153.00 contract for building a new fourteen room elementary school at McGaheysville. The new structure housed classrooms, cafeteria, kitchen, teachers' lounge, and health clinic.
On January 26, 1969, the new building was opened for use. The new building continued to house grades one through six until the 1976-77 school term when kindergarten was added. The addition of kindergarten added two mobile units to the school. In the spring of 1980, the sixth grade was transferred to Montevideo Intermediate School due to the opening of Spotswood Senior High School.
McGaheysville Elementary School presently contains kindergarten through fifth grade. An addition and renovation was completed in July 1995 at a cost of approximately four million dollars. This doubled the size of the former structure.
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