School construction or renovation projects can have a profound affect on students, faculty and administration. The negative impact on the ongoing educational programs is a stressor for many administrators. The possibility that rural school administrators would experience more stress producing problems than would suburban and urban school leaders was studied. Using a sample of 190 school administrators, this hypothesis was supported for a number of dimensions of school climate. Possible causes for this differential effect are proposed. (Contains 3 tables and 1 note.)