Coordinates: 42°53′11″N 71°18′19″W / 42.88639°N 71.30528°W / 42.88639; -71.30528 West Running Brook Middle School is located in the town of Derry, New Hampshire, United States. The school was built in 1994 - 1995 and opened in September, 1995. The school has about 600 students in grades 6-8. Each grade has 2 pods, or teams. Each team has its own set of classrooms, teachers, and lockers.
The current principal of West Running Brook, since August 2006, is Leslie Saucier.
This school was built to alleviate the overcrowding at the town's only other middle school, Gilbert H. Hood. The school's name comes from Robert Frost's "West Running Brook." The poem describes a small brook located adjacent to the school.
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“Every other evening around six o’clock he left home and dying dawn saw him hustling home around the lake where the challenging sun flung a flaming sword from east to west across the trembling water.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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—Chinese proverb.
“The only house
Beyond where they were was a shattered seedpod.
And below roared a brook hidden in trees,
The sound of which was silence for the place.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Robert Frost (1874–1963)