MARVIN WRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The brief history of Marvin H. Wright Elementary School is interwoven
with the historical events in the community of Spring Hill. Once, a
small rural community located on the northern border of Maury County in
Tennessee, today Spring Hill is a rapidly changing place. The changes
started in the 1980’s and 1990’s with the location of the General
Motors (GM) automobile plant at Spring Hill.The landscape of the
community took on a new appearance and population grew. The
transformation of Spring Hill created many challenges, with
restructuring the schools in the area due to continued growth being one
of the greatest.
In 1934 the first public school, Spring Hill School, opened in Spring Hill which included grades 1st through 10th. A
few years’ later, grades 11 and 12 were added. This school served
the educational needs of the children in the area for the next fifty
years as the only school. Spring Hill School grew as the rural
community began to change and the time finally arrived in the fall of
1984 to open a new elementary school. Spring Hill Elementary
School(SHES) was established to serve grades kindergarten through 6th. This
new school was built in response to the population growth and school
over-crowding that had begun and showed no signs of ceasing. The
continued growth in the area led, in 1992, to the opening of the
new Spring Hill High School (SHHS). The 6th grade from SHES
moved there due to continued over-crowding and growth continued in the
Spring Hill are, primarily due to the largest demographic moving into
the area being young married adults starting new families.
As
over-crowding continued at SHES, Marvin H. Wright Elementary School
(MWES) was opened in the fall of 2006 on Derryberry Lane. The land was
donated for the new school by Dino Roberts, John Floyd and Cornerstone
Land Company. SHES now serves students in grades K through 4 as well
as MWES serving grades K through 4. The new facility was designed to
accommodate the needs of all students. There are 37 classrooms which are
equipped with telephones, LCD projectors, some Smart Boards, storage
for students and teachers, sinks, and for Kindergarten classes,
bathrooms. The facility has six storage rooms and three conference
rooms. The school has an art room, library, gym, cafeteria, and two
computer labs. There is a theatrical stage in the cafeteria and a
literacy room for teacher resources.
MWES opened the school with a
student enrollment of approximately 400 students with a staff of 24
teachers. MWES currently has a student enrollment of approximately 600
students and 40 teachers.