Patrick Springs Primary School, one of six elementary schools in the Patrick County Public School System, is located in Patrick Springs, a rural community at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Our school began as the Patrick Springs Hotel, later to be converted into a female college in 1861.  In 1870, with the inauguration of the public school system, the female college was closed and the building evolved into a two-room schoolhouse.  In the late 19"teens", two extra rooms were added and it remained a four-room schoolhouse for 20 to 25 years.  In the school year of 1950-51 a fifth classroom and teacher were added.  By 1955 a new facility had been built to accommodate the growing populatio, with 8 teachers and an enrollment of 228, grades one through seven.  As the years passed by, Patrick Springs became a K-3 school feeding Hardin Reynolds Memorial (grades 4-7).  Further additions have been made to our facilities, the most recent a gymnasium and additional classrooms in 2001.  Currently, as a part of the division wide "Facilities Addition and Renovation Project", extensive construction is taking place.  At completion of this project, the front entrance and office areas will be updated to enhance the safety and security of our school community and ten additional classrooms will be added.  The growth of our building will allow for art and music rooms, updated computer labs, and additional classrooms to keep our student/teacher ratio low among our growing population.  We look forward to the expansion of our facility and its ability to provide a variety of of new learning experiences while enhancing our current programs.

Our motto, "Every Child, Every Chance, Every Day", encapsulates our district's vision statement realizing the ever-increasing challenges of living in the world today and thus encourages educators and the community to unify in an effort to ensure that every child reaches their fullest development in academic, career and technical and social education.  At Patrick Springs Primary we seek to educate the whole child.  Our highly qualified staff and numerous volunteers ensure that all students are engaged and supported in differentiated instruction and cooperative learning opportunities to cultivate successful and productive citizens.  We are proud of the programs we offer.

Patrick Springs Primary has been awarded Distinguished Title I School in 2006, Virginia Education Govenor's Excellence Award in 2008, 2009 and 2010.  We have also been nominated as a Blue Ribbon School.  The Blue Ribbon Schools Program honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools that are either academically superior or that demonstrate dramatic gains in student achievement to high levels.  We are one of only seven schools nominated from Virginia.  Our faculty and community are very proud of our awards, but consider our highest reward to be the success of our students.