Contractors last week finished installing over $50,000 worth of new LED lighting in classrooms and other parts of the main school building, as well as in the parking lot and other outdoor areas. Close to 30 classrooms on both the first and second floors of the school’s 65,000-square-foot educational building received new lighting, as well as administrative staff offices, the library, kitchen, the stage, and closets and stairwells.
Outdoors, new LED lighting was added to the exterior canopies over the main entrance and bus entrance of the school as well as to all the lamp posts in the parking lot. “This new, energy-efficient lighting is not only going to result in thousands of dollars of electricity savings each year, but is making our campus safer with the brighter, long-lasting LED fixtures,” said Chief School Administrator Karen Oblen. “We’re so thankful for the state grant and loan programs that have made these important facility improvements possible.” The lighting improvements are being funded through two programs overseen by the New Jersey Office of Clean Energy.