BEAUMONT, Texas — Students and staff at Caldwood Elementary walked onto a chilly campus Wednesday morning.
This happened on the coldest morning of winter and the campus was colder than the district mandates.
District leaders say they have a plan to fix this situation.
The piece of equipment that helps regulate the temperature of inside Caldwood Elementary is 16-years-old, so it was on it's way to being replaced.
"Anytime you overstress a mechanical system you have the potential for it to break," said Beaumont Independent School District Executive Director of Student Development Randall Maxwell.
During this cold snap A/C units and heaters have been in overdrive. So when educators walked into the school in the morning, they found it colder than usual.
"I walked around the school, went into several classrooms the office area, the library. Asked individual teachers, individual monitoring of classrooms," Maxwell said.
The district found the equipment was not keeping the temperature regulated at the minimum 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
Maxwell made a personal walk through the campus.
"We shoot for a range of 68-70 degrees and it dipped below that. It dipped below that, this morning it was registering about 62 degrees. We are dealing with a system that is 16-years-old, that is going to be replaced next week actually," he said.
The district says if the temperature went below a certain point, then parents would have been alerted.
Replacing the equipment will be a three day process of changing out the machines, that will take place next week, according to BISD officials.