New Milford High School

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New Milford High School is a four-year, public, coeducational high school in New Milford, Connecticut. Currently, approximately 1,600 students attend the school. Although a majority of the students attending the school are from New Milford, others are from the nearby towns of Sherman and Washington. The school is located at 388 Danbury Road in the town of New Milford and is a part of the New Milford School District. Other high schools in the district include the Canterbury School and the Faith Church Preparatory School, although New Milford High School is the only public high school.ArchitectureConstruction on the new school was finished in 2000 after the town's municipal authorities (under the leadership of then-Mayor Arthur J. Peitler) voted to reorganize the public school system. Changes included redefining the elementary school as K-3rd grade, introducing a new intermediate school, redefining the middle school as 7th-8th grade, and constructing a new high school. These changes sparked a controversy over the amount funding taxpayers would need to supply for the changes to be completed. For this reason, the pool in the original plan for the new high school was never constructed. To this day, upper-class students of the school jokingly respond to freshman students' inquiries about the pool by saying "the pool's on the fourth floor," despite the building's three-floor structure. There are in fact stairs that lead beyond the third floor, but the area is only used for storage.