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Both my sisters live in 'burbs adjoining to Philly. The one I live closest to is in a town of 5000, which is part of a township of 4 towns (for a total pop. of 20,000) that share public services like police, fire, schools, libraries, etc. They literally built TWO brand new schools - an elementary and a middle school, during my niece's time in their school system.

Meanwhile here in Philly, we still have the same 100+ year old piece of junk elementary schools with mold, asbestos, no air-conditioning (and slow attempts to put in window units where they suddenly discover that the electrical systems can't handle all that), continual heating problems in winter, and roof leaks.

The first "newer" school building that I went to wasn't until high school, which was a building built in 1959, which was considered "old" by the time I went there. I went to middle/junior high in the SAME building that my mother used for high school back in the '40s (and that was when the building was already a couple decades old). The middle/junior high school had no field and had a "playground" for recess on the roof that was caged in.