After the first collapse, neighbors living downhill from the school abandoned their property out of fear that the building would fall onto their homes.

If a child lived more than two miles (3 km) from the school they could ride the school wagon.

Overall the school has 500 day pupils, all living within the catchment area of 6.2 miles from the school.

Nicholas lives three blocks from the school and normally walks home by himself.

Many students, he said, were being bused even if they lived a few blocks from the school.

Bus service is provided for all students who live two miles or more from the school.

I'd gone halfway around the world, and now lived three-quarters of a mile from the high school.

Previously, all students who lived more than a mile from the school could ride the bus.

We only lived a few blocks from the school.

"They don't know how to act," said Doris Green, who lives a block from the club and the school.