History
When opened in 1973, adjacent to the namesake reservoir, Lake Braddock drew its students from nearby Robinson Secondary School to the west and West Springfield High School to the south. Lake Braddock was built without walls in most of its educational areas, as it was believed by the administrators of the era that students would learn better in an open environment. When school officials realized a school without walls was distracting to teenage students, temporary walls were installed around many classrooms in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This resulted in significant climate control problems throughout the building, which were largely left unfixed until the school was renovated.
Besides the "open classroom" approach, Lake Braddock when it opened also employed the "Forecast Five" approach, which was a "school within a school" of 150 students assigned to 5 teachers (math, English, science, social studies, special ed), and, for example, on field trips all 150 would go.
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