Peeler-Hampton Visual and Performing Arts Elementary School (Peeler-Hampton VPA) officially opens to students for the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 25. Walking the halls during the ribbon cutting ceremony in mid-August, new students were smiling and their eyes were filled with awe seeing their brand new school for the first time.
Just a few years before, the halls of this building were nonexistent. Instead there was just the land that held the remnants of the school that used to exist there.
In spring 2018, a tornado touched down in Greensboro and damaged a portion of the northeastern part of the city. Several schools, including former Peeler and Hampton elementary schools, sustained significant damage. Subsequently, both schools were demolished. But thanks to a school bond passed by the voters in Guilford County, a new school now sits at the same site as the former Peeler Open Elementary School: Peeler-Hampton VPA…