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This is the site being used by the citizen committee in support of the bond issue to build a new Middle School for the district schools in Seward, Nebraska.

Paid for by
Right School
Right Reasons
Committee

Mike Hecker, Treasurer

About the Project

The current Seward Middle School:
  1. Has significant safety issues including falling and cracking brick and mortar and a busy highway location.
  2. Is dramatically over capacity for both classroom and commons areas.
  3. Is not an efficient facility to maintain including heating and cooling.
  4. Is not adequate for the necessary security measures required in modern schools, including no prominent, main-floor check-in location for visitors and no service entry for deliveries.
  5. Is not adequate for students with special needs.
  6. Does not meet the long term goals established by the district and necessary for a growing community.

A newly constructed Seward Middle School will:

  1. Provide a safe, healthy, comfortable environment for students to learn and grow.
  2. Be efficient and cost effective to maintain.
  3. Instill a sense of pride in school and community.
  4. Attract people to our community and students to our schools.
  5. Allow for enhanced community uses.
  6. Meet the needs of all students attending SMS.

Why a new facility?

  1. Repairs to the current facility are cost prohibitive.
  2. The current facility is land-locked and there is not adequate room to add-on or build at the current site.
  3. The current site does not have adequate off-street parking.
  4. A new facility meets the needs and priorities of the Master and Facility Plans for the Seward School District.

Why now?

  1. Construction and material costs are more affordable at this time.
  2. Contractors and sub-contractors are bidding competitively for work at this time.
  3. Interest rates are low at this time.
  4. Seward has had significant growth in the last 10 years and that trend is not expected to reverse.