Liberty School students enjoy a unique learning environment inside a building owned by StoneAge Tools within the Skyline Industrial Complex at Animas Air Park on Thursday. The building that houses Liberty School and Durango Big Picture High School on 12th Street flooded earlier this month, and the school is using StoneAge building temporarily. From the left, parent-volunteer Karen Gerst reads with second-grader Alyce Goff, as third-graders Nathan Newman and Aiden Hassel, right, enjoy a brief run between reading assignments.

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Liberty School students enjoy a unique learning environment inside a building owned by StoneAge Tools within the Skyline Industrial Complex at Animas Air Park on Thursday. The building that houses Liberty School and Durango Big Picture High School on 12th Street flooded earlier this month, and the school is using StoneAge building temporarily. From the left, parent-volunteer Karen Gerst reads with second-grader Alyce Goff, as third-graders Nathan Newman and Aiden Hassel, right, enjoy a brief run between reading assignments.

SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald

The Liberty School, which was forced out of its quarters on east 12th Street by flooding, is located temporarily in Animas Air Park.

The school, which has 22 gifted and dyslexic students (some are both), is housed in a building owned by StoneAge Waterblast Tools at 564 Skylane Drive.

A StoneAge employee with a child at The Liberty School was the catalyst in making the arrangement, said Liberty Administrative Director Suzette Collard.

Anyone needing to contact the school may call Collard on her cellphone, 759-0388.

If the school isn’t able to return to its former home within a month, a new location will be sought, Collard said.

In fact, the search is already under way, she said.

The building that houses Liberty School and Durango Big Picture High School flooded Jan. 7 after a pool of water and ice on the roof found its way into the walls and the roof.

daler@durangoherald.com