Facilities
Harriton High School features a 328,000 square foot, state-of-the-art building and campus that includes a student parking lot, a synthetic turf football stadium, and features designed to make Harriton an environmentally friendly, LEED-certified school. The building incorporates a system that captures and filters rain water for non-potable use in plumbing systems. The roof, painted with a light hue, is meant to reflect excessive energy from the sun, helping maintain the building's temperature and obviating the need for excessive air conditioning. Harriton further conserves energy through its motion-detecting and intensity-detecting lights; hallways and classrooms will automatically shut off their lights in the absence of movement and lightly dim lights in the presence of sufficient sunlight. The three-floor building surrounds a grassy courtyard. Other notable facilities include a greenhouse, college-style lecture hall with tiered seating, a music technology laboratory, and a black-box theater.
Harriton has pioneered a one-to-one laptop initiative in which each student currently receives a new Apple MacBook for their at-home and at-school use during the academic year. Since the 2008 school year, students have had access to the computers, which are pre-installed with a plethora of software including Adobe Creative Suite products, allowing students to use and become acclimated to computer programs of industry standards.
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