In 1933, the age range of admitted orphans was expanded from 4–8 years to 4–14. In 1934, a junior-senior high school building was opened at the site with a capacity for 1500 students. Hershey resigned from the school's board in 1944, a year before his death. By then the school had acquired about 10,000 acres of land. The school's name was changed from "Hershey Industrial School" to "Milton Hershey School" in 1953, reportedly to eliminate the possibility of "industrial" connoting a reform school.