A West Roxbury building that had housed two high schools — both of which closed last year because Boston Public Schools said the facility was unsafe — has been used by the city for other purposes multiple times this fall, the school department has confirmed.

The Boston Police Academy used the building last week to hold a physical fitness exam and has used the building on three other occasions since September, according to BPS. The Police Academy also plans to hold a make-up physical fitness exam in the building later this month.

The Boston Police Department could not confirm how many people were in the building during the exam or for how many hours the building was in use. BPS said that the building has not been used for other purposes or by other parties since the school closed to students and staff at the end of the 2018-2019 school year.

The Boston School Committee voted last year to close West Roxbury Academy and Urban Science Academy — both housed in the West Roxbury Education Complex — after the city’s inspectional services department said the building was not viable past June 2019. BPS Chief Operations Officer John Hanlon said in a May interview with WGBH News that that building's roof "vastly and quickly deteriorated over the last couple of years," which led to water infiltrating the building and damaging the building's electrical and HVAC systems. He also said at the time that the building's windows were beyond repair and the facility was struggling with masonry problems.

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A report released in October 2018 outlining Phase II of BuildBPS, Mayor Marty Walsh’s $1 billion school facilities plan, reads that “the closure is prompted by a facility emergency due to rapidly declining conditions at the school. The long-term viability of this school building past this current school year would require significant improvements to its infrastructure.”

Some teachers and students say the city’s use of the building despite the district’s insistence that the building is unsafe is hypocritical. Boston Public Schools said there is a difference between educating students over an entire school year and opening the building sporadically for trained public safety officials.

“These [facility] concerns are still valid and, therefore, from a safety perspective it is still the best course of action to not operate the building over the course of a school year,” a BPS spokesperson said in an email. “The use of the building this year has amounted to sporadic, short-term activity by trained law enforcement personnel who are aware of the building’s structural issues and who have to conduct training for public safety responses in all sorts of environments.”

The closure of the two schools followed a contentious fight between the district and students, staff and community members, many of whom claimed that shuttering the two schools was an example of longstanding institutional racism within the Boston Public School system. During the 2018-2019 school year, West Roxbury Academy and Urban Science Academy educated 740 students, nearly 90 percent of whom were black or Hispanic.

“I mean, it’s not surprising. It makes me angry,” said Allison Doherty, a former teacher at Urban Science Academy who now teaches at Fenway High School. “We already feel like we've been lied to over and over again. But this is just egregious.”

“It’s just devastating,” said Tajiah Julien-Johnson, formerly a student at West Roxbury Academy. Now a senior, Julien-Johnson attends classes in a section of Washington Irving Middle School, where the district relocated rising seniors from the two closed schools. “They broke up the community, but the building is still being used.”

Boston Public Schools said that long-term plans have not changed for the building, and the district still plans to construct a new, citywide grade 7-12 school on the property.