The school location was built adjacent to a large wetland, Saint Joseph’s Cemetery, the former VFW Parkway Drive In and the former Gardner Street Landfill.

Boston Mayor Kevin White announced plans to build a new high school in West Roxbury in 1973.

An investigation revealed an additive substance called Sarabond in the mortar used when the school was built was defective and causing the problem.

Most of the money was used to repair the damage which changed the appearance of the school with a two brick-color exterior by 1989.

In the fall of 2005, West Roxbury High School was renamed West Roxbury Educational Complex,[1] and was divided into four schools: Media Communications Technology High School, Parkway Academy of Technology and Health, Urban Science Academy[2] and Brook Farm Business & Service Career Academy.