School districts are reluctantly paying for repairing damage to their properties that might not have occurred had the buildings and sites been better designed. A study to determine what designers and owners can do to prevent or dimish damage to schools through more careful planning and design reveals five major design issues pertinent to the problem of property damage in schools. The first three, access to roofs, entrances, and predictable rough play spaces, relate to the question of access and the proximity of rough activities to unprotected windows and fragile hardware. The other two design issues relate to the damage-ability of walls and ground materials. This report deals with one aspect of the solution--what to watch for when designing new schools. (Author/MLF)