She suspected immediately that her sister, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, very likely hadn't survived the first attack and focused on evacuating students and teachers safely. Dolch, school secretary Lisa Quigley, AP Ted Bronsnick, and Dean of Students Neil Marks, smoothly and without external guidance, evacuated the 14-story building from the top down in minutes, out the south-east entrance and down to Battery Park. Julia Martinez and Margaret Espinosa, who worked as special ed, one-on-one paras at the school risked their lives by carrying two teen-age students to safety after the girls' wheelchairs broke down from being pushed through the rubble. Randy Spotts, a dean, and John, a security officer at the school, stayed behind after the evacuation and assisted people outside who had been harmed by debris. They also assisted neighboring cart owners to safety. Many students and teachers eventually found boats and ferries to get them away from Manhattan and a large contingent of students accompanied their math teachers, Conrad Sparnroft and Brian Donnelly, to Staten Island; another contingent took ferries to NJ with English and history teachers. A few more accompanied teachers on private yachts arriving down from the 79th street boat basin. Another small group accompanied a teacher, Virginia Pruitt, who had looked for students remaining in the area, to Brooklyn and her home. The only injury was a sprained ankle during the stair descent. No windows were broken on the building, though the gaskets sealing the windows failed in the face of the collapsing towers, as dust covered everything inside the building. No students lost family members in the attacks, although some parents had been working in the area. After 11 September 2001, the school was housed temporarily at Fashion Industries High School. The merging of the two schools was fraught and the teachers and students were relieved to be allowed back to their own building at the end of the first semester. Regular air testing and dust testing was conducted throughout the year. However, doubt remains as to the safety of the air in the area. Nearly two years later, the EPA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reported that the EPA “did not have sufficient data and analyses to make such a blanket statement,” as “air monitoring data was lacking for several pollutants of concern.” September 11 had an enormous, if sometimes delayed, impact on the staff, students and the school overall. Enrollment declined, and a period of instability followed, with a revolving door of principals and an uneven record of academic performance beginning.