Students coined it in for their school by collecting thousands of quarters for a special fundraising project.

Pupils at Harrington Sound raised $3,175 for school coffers -- and circled school buildings with nearly 13,000 25-cent pieces. The project, designed to combine fundraising and mathematics, was called "Linking Our Landscape with Longtails''.

Students, aged five to 10, collected the quarters for four weeks to see how many it would take to surround the school.

The "quarter-rama'' project ran between April 17 and May 20 and students measured the distance of quarters collected at the end of each week. They covered about a quarter of the way around the school each week and by the fourth week not only had they completed the perimeter, but they had also gone up and down the front stairs.

Family members, students and teachers donated quarters for the project. And they were allowed to guess -- for a 50 cent fee -- how many quarters would make up the final total. Teachers said the end count was 12,700 quarters, and students Adam Rego and Olivier Nesbitt were the project's top collectors.