History
The Woodlands School was opened in the year 1970 with 400 students in grades 7 and 8. While the first phase of its present building was under construction, The Woodlands operated in the Springfield Public School building. In September, 1970, the school's students and staff moved to the new building, and The Woodlands became a combined elementary and secondary school with its first ninth-grade students. Today, The Woodlands has over 1600 students.
While the Woodlands was designed to be an open concept school, this original vision has not been proven to be very successful. Consequently, the school, after several years, was re-organized along traditional lines by installing aluminium walls, contributing to few of the classrooms having windows.
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