Schools right next to interchanges

[tolbs17]

Micro Elementary School This is the only one I can find, but I'm sure there are more and I don't like them that close to a busy with especially with access because what can happen if you have kids running around and they try to jump on the exit/entrance ramps? I feel like this is a safety hazard having schools that close with access to the highway.

[1995hoo]

You do realize there is a fence separating the school property from the ramp?

[tolbs17]

You do realize there is a fence separating the school property from the ramp?

Yes, but still. Bad location for a school.

[CoreySamson]

Central High School in San Angelo is located right on the frontage road for US 67 right next to a busy interchange. I actually discovered this because I was looking at a random GSV of San Angelo and noticed large amounts of kids in the area walking on the frontage road.

[tolbs17]

Central High School in San Angelo is located right on the frontage road for US 67 right next to a busy interchange. I actually discovered this because I was looking at a random GSV of San Angelo and noticed large amounts of kids in the area walking on the frontage road.

Some districts do poor planning sometimes. Thank god it's not an elementary school!

[GaryV]

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9747803,-85.6783216,3a,60y,205.69h,96.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sitPytReVZsHKWbbsf5S8BA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

The condo building next to the ramp from SB US-131 to WB I-196 is the former West Middle School.  Sure, there's no direct access, but think about traffic zooming past your 3rd story classroom.

Up until 1967 - shortly after the freeways were built - this was Union High School.

[bmorrill]

Central High School in San Angelo is located right on the frontage road for US 67 right next to a busy interchange. I actually discovered this because I was looking at a random GSV of San Angelo and noticed large amounts of kids in the area walking on the frontage road.

Some districts do poor planning sometimes. Thank god it's not an elementary school!

Central was there long before the Houston Harte Expressway was built, and Caddo was never a major street. 67 jogged down Main Street and then followed Beauregard through town.

[Rothman]

Glenmont Elementary in Bethlehem, NY practically has the Thruway in its backyard.

[tolbs17]

Glenmont Elementary in Bethlehem, NY practically has the Thruway in its backyard.

Well, at least there's trees separating it.

[epzik8]

Archbishop Spalding High School is down New Cut Road from I-97 exit 12.

[SkyPesos]

Not served by this interchange, but there's a high school in one of the corners of the I-71 and I-275 interchange in Ohio.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Hampton University is right off Exit 267 on I-64, and the university property backs up to the interstate. Same deal with Norfolk State University and I-264.

[jaehak]

Marquette University is famously adjacent to I-43 and I-94, meeting at the Marquette Interchange.

[ilpt4u]

Thornwood High School's Football Field's South Endzone almost butts up to I-80/294/South end of the Tri-State Tollway

The school is right next to the Lincoln Southland Oasis, and a couple miles west of the 80/94/294/394 interchange, and just east of the Thorton quarry bridge on the Tri-State

Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox is just off I-80 at the US 30 exit, separated by a former K-Mart and parking lot between the school and the Folded Diamond

Metea Valley High School in Aurora is not very far off I-88 at the "Eola Rd" /really Diehl Rd EB/Bilter Rd WB RIRO Interchanges

[MATraveler128]

There's the George Washington School in White Plains, NY that is immediately off exit 6 on the I-287 Cross Westchester Expressway.

[GaryA]

Adolfo Camarillo HS, in Camarillo, CA, is at the US 101 Pleasant Valley/Santa Rosa interchange.  The school was built about the same time the road was upgraded to a freeway (mid-1960s).

However, in this case it's the athletic fields that are right next to the interchange, with the school buildings set well back and up a hill.  This can cause issues since events at the field are visible to the freeway traffic (although a recent soundwall installation has reduced this), especially when the city had its 4th of July party and fireworks there.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Ugh, I totally forgot that Virginia Tech now has direct access via an interchange on the US 460 freeway since the Southgate Drive interchange was built and opened a few years ago.

Liberty University has a couple of direct interchanges and the school's property straddles the US 460 freeway in Lynchburg.

Dabney Lancaster Community College in Alleghany County, Virginia also has direct access from I-64.

[7/8]

Bluevale Collegiate Institute in Waterloo, ON backs onto the Highway 85/Bridgeport Road interchange (Google Maps link).

[1995hoo]

Ugh, I totally forgot that Virginia Tech now has direct access via an interchange on the US 460 freeway since the Southgate Drive interchange was built and opened a few years ago.

Liberty University has a couple of direct interchanges and the school's property straddles the US 460 freeway in Lynchburg.

Dabney Lancaster Community College in Alleghany County, Virginia also has direct access from I-64.

UVA has had direct access from and to the northbound US-29 bypass via the North Grounds Connector Road (now technically Leonard Sandridge Boulevard) for some 15+ years now–I don't recall when the road opened, but I believe it was prior to when the current basketball arena opened in 2006.

The property on which Marshall High School here in Fairfax County sits backs up to the Beltway; that part of the property consists of athletic fields. Never heard of it being a safety issue as the OP hypothesizes.

[mgk920]

In the Green Bay, WI area, Ashwaubenon High School is built along Ridge Rd, a block off of  the ROW  for the NE corner of the I-41/WI 172 'Ashwaubenon Interchange', such that I often wonder why WisDOT did not build a pedestrian/Bicycle crossing diagonally through the interchange from NE to SW to connect Ridge Rd to Hanson Rd/Helmuth La.

https://goo.gl/maps/upfkcdtq2jEMYoBW9

Lambeau Field is about 10 blocks to the north on Ridge Rd.

Mike

[WillWeaverRVA]

Ugh, I totally forgot that Virginia Tech now has direct access via an interchange on the US 460 freeway since the Southgate Drive interchange was built and opened a few years ago.

Liberty University has a couple of direct interchanges and the school's property straddles the US 460 freeway in Lynchburg.

Dabney Lancaster Community College in Alleghany County, Virginia also has direct access from I-64.

UVA has had direct access from and to the northbound US-29 bypass via the North Grounds Connector Road (now technically Leonard Sandridge Boulevard) for some 15+ years now–I don't recall when the road opened, but I believe it was prior to when the current basketball arena opened in 2006.

Forgot about that one too, probably because I haven't been on the northbound bypass as much.

I could have sworn there was a high school in the Hampton Roads area that was ONLY accessible via an interchange, but I guess there isn't because I can't find it now.

[kiwislark]

Ugh, I totally forgot that Virginia Tech now has direct access via an interchange on the US 460 freeway since the Southgate Drive interchange was built and opened a few years ago.

Liberty University has a couple of direct interchanges and the school's property straddles the US 460 freeway in Lynchburg.

Dabney Lancaster Community College in Alleghany County, Virginia also has direct access from I-64.

UVA has had direct access from and to the northbound US-29 bypass via the North Grounds Connector Road (now technically Leonard Sandridge Boulevard) for some 15+ years now—I don't recall when the road opened, but I believe it was prior to when the current basketball arena opened in 2006.

Forgot about that one too, probably because I haven't been on the northbound bypass as much.

I could have sworn there was a high school in the Hampton Roads area that was ONLY accessible via an interchange, but I guess there isn't because I can't find it now.

Maybe you were thinking of Atlantic City High School? Not in the Hampton Roads area but it's only access is from an interchange with US 40/North Albany Ave.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3671405,-74.4752929,1378m/data=!3m1!1e3

[jp the roadgeek]

The I-84 Sisson Ave ramps, which were once planned to be part of the CT 189 expressway, took out a portion of Hartford Public High School's campus.  The school is a few hundred feet north of the off ramp. 

[lakewobegon]

Back in 1965, I went to Clover Street School in Windsor CT for kindergarten. I recall seeing I-91 from the fields at the school, although there was probably a fence. I see that the school is still there. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Clover+Street+School/@41.831541,-72.6661367,833m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e65575fa3705db:0x8b747156cd2b551!8m2!3d41.831537!4d-72.663948

[wriddle082]

In Tennessee I can think of a few:

* Coffee County Raider Academy in Manchester is right next to I-24 Exit 111.  When you get off that exit during a school zone timeframe, you have to follow the school zone speed limit going south of the interchange on TN 55.
* Wilson Central High School in Gladeville was built next to I-840 near Exit 72 (TN 265 and TN 109).
* Independence High School in Thompson's Station was built next to I-840 Exit 28 (US 31).
* Maplewood High School in Nashville is next to the US 31E Ellington Pkwy (unnumbered) interchange with Broadmoor Drive (I think the school is older than the freeway).
* Pope John Paul II Catholic High School in Hendersonville was built next to TN 386 (Vietnam Veterans Blvd) Exit 2 (Center Point Rd).
* Lipscomb Elementary School in Brentwood was built on Concord Rd next to I-65 probably sometime in the 60's or 70's (no interchange at the time).  Then in the early 80's, Concord Rd was taken over by TDOT and became TN 253, and by 1989 or 1990 they built Exit 71.  I think the northbound on and off ramps intersect Concord Rd and Lipscomb Dr right in the heart of the school zone, which is most likely an unreasonable 15 MPH because that seems to be the default.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.