A New Elementary School for Neshaminy

Artist rendering of the new school building

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 start of the 2024-2025 school year. 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 has yet to be named) will sit adjacent to, but separate from Maple Point Middle School. The parking lots and driveways will be 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.

Overlay map showing the location of the new elementary school building

April, 2023

June, 2023

July, 2023