Green Schools:
Learning as We Go

Like many communities, our town of Brattleboro was faced with a huge problem in its existing high school complex. The sprawling, dilapidated, 230,000 ft² (21,000 m²) school for 1,600 students—actually a high school, middle school, and career education center all in one—was built in five stages between 1951 and 1991. It is a health hazard, the roofs leak, mechanical systems are failing, classrooms are overcrowded, and the heat distribution is so inadequate that you see open windows in some parts of the building even on the coldest winter days, while elsewhere students keep their coats on to stay warm. So bad are the air quality and crowding problems that the school was threatened with a loss of its accreditation a year ago.

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