In the Orangefield High School gym, physics and chemistry classes meets in the bleachers, a white board propped below scoreboards on the wall. A seventh-grade English class occupies the drill team's dressing room, where mirrors cover the walls and sparkly costumes hang in a closet. The students' writing prompts are projected on a white shower curtain taped up as a makeshift screen. Junior High School principal Deena VanPelt ticks off the "unconventional" spaces the district has converted to classrooms - computer class in the band hall, English classes in science labs, remedial classes in storage areas with plywood walls, library books stacked on carts in a hallway.