School

With the increased size of Berwind following the strike, the company was forced to build a new school complex. Located on the south end of the camp and on the former sites of privately built miners' housing, the schools represented a dramatic change in Berwind's landscape. Following the strike, managers had successfully demolished most of the self-built miners' housing in the camp forcing most miners and their families to become reliant on company housing.

The schools had a different attitude towards education under the Rockefeller Plan. Children were no longer expected to go directly in the mine, but with access to both a junior high and high school, parents pushed children into a longer education. For students, sports, such as basketball, bowling, and baseball, and junior American First Societies worked to shape the practices and ideologies of students as the YMCA did so on a level more specific to adults.