WPS Air Conditioning Project

Air conditioning is planned for each of the four schools that do not have centralized AC: Wellesley Middle School and Bates, Fiske, and Schofield elementary schools. The School Committee’s goal is to provide air conditioning in these four buildings in the most cost-efficient manner while ensuring conditions that best support teaching and learning during the hottest periods of the school year.  Following small-scale classroom pilot installations that outperformed expectations, the School Committee voted unanimously in May 2026 to support a plan that would upgrade electrical systems and utilize window units in classrooms and libraries. Read the study report. The Committee plans to request additional funding at the Fall Special Town Meeting. In the interim, the district has also developed an extreme heat protocol for the four affected schools.