Being creative and flexible is the ongoing lesson at Winding Waters K-8 school in Hernando County these days.

The school is bursting at the seams with students.

"We were way over our projected numbers, which made it crisis mode," said school principal Dave Dannemiller.

The already full school ended up with about 80 more students than they thought they were going to have, so everybody is making it work.

The faculty lounge is now a science classroom, the stage in the cafeteria is a music classroom, some classes are doubled up and some kids are learning in the hallway.

"Our number one goal is to keep the impact on the students to a minimum," Dannemiller said.

There is a solution in the works to create a little more room. Some schedules are being tweaked to open up more classroom space to get kids off the stage and out of the hallway.

Julie Brady teaches science in the faculty lounge. She said it can get a little crazy, but it works.

"We have done better that expected," she said. "That's with a lot of hard work, a lot of extra planning, a lot of extra time spent."

School leaders say some other schools in the county are under capacity, so the plan is to figure out how to even things out for next year.

Any new students zoned for Winding Waters that are coming in late are being sent to different schools.