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A New Elementary School for Neshaminy
Early artist rendering of the new Core Creek Elementary School
Construction is under way at the Maple Point campus for a new $51 million, two-story, 119,000 square foot elementary school building scheduled for completion by the end of 2024 and ready for occupancy following the winter break. This project has been discussed and planned for a number of years as part of the District's Road Map plan to fill a geographical gap in the northern part of the district. Students in the upper Middletown Township and Langhorne area currently attend one of four elementary schools located in the Levittown area. The new school will host between 800-900 students and replace Pearl S. Buck Elementary School, which was opened in 1968. That building has not been significantly renovated since then, and a decision was made to construct the new school instead of spending the millions of dollars that would have been needed to renovate Buck and bring it up to modern standards of safety, efficiency and usefulness.
Site preparation began in 2022 and construction in the spring of 2023. The school (which will be named Core Creek Elementary School) sits adjacent to, but separate from Maple Point Middle School. The parking lots and driveways have been configured to handle traffic from both schools, and traffic flow to and from the two schools will also benefit from road and intersection improvements by PennDOT under way on Woodbourne Road, Langhorne-Yardley Road and Bridgetown Pike. The building itself will feature state-of-the-art energy-efficient HVAC, electrical and lighting systems and a modern design with grade-level "pods" and common areas that encourage collaboration and group activities. The building was designed by the Spiezle architectural design firm, which was also responsible for the design of Tawanka Elementary School, completed in 2016.
Students and staff from Pearl S. Buck Elementary School will be moved to the new school following the winter break in January, 2025. Students in some catchment areas of other schools (Tawanka, Joseph Ferderbar and Herbert Hoover ES) will also be re-assigned with the start of the 2025-2026 school year. In September, 2024 the Neshaminy School Board approved a reassignment plan for those catchment areas (Scenario 3, which can be viewed in the Redistricting Presentation linked below). Visit the following links for more information:
Letter to Buck, Tawanka, Ferderbar and Hoover families (September, 2024)
Redistricting presentation (June, 2024)
CONSTRUCTION UPDATES
Overlay map showing the location of the new elementary school building
April, 2023
June, 2023
July, 2023
September, 2023
October, 2023
December, 2023
March, 2024
March, 2024 showing the gymnasium area
March, 2024 showing interior 2nd & 3rd grade area
March, 2024 showing the walkway between building sections
Video Tour, July 19, 2024
Maple Point campus, July 2024
Intersection realignment and improvements
Langhorne-Yardley Road and Woodbourne Road
July, 2024
