<p>The school aides are the worst. They patrol the hallways like prison guards. And their conversations are the weirdest.</p>
<p>grades 6-12
about 800 kids
really good academics
some decent sports and some really good sports
very wealthy</p>
<p>Pretty amazing. Big I guess (+3000) but it’s a performing arts school and I <3 it!!! Its not so good academically… We only have real school till 1:30 then conservatory till 3:30 for middle schoolers and 4:50 for high schoolers.</p>
<p>1,300 kids
Public, nonmagnet
Very affluent (we moved here just for the school instead of going private)
Regular classes aren’t too hard, but the APs are ridiculous.
Everyone is AP crazy. 10+
I’d say 70% white, 25% Asian, 5% black/Mexican,etc. </p>
<p>To sum it up, ridiculous.</p>
<p>I guess my school is the biggest with 4,000 kids. L.A. Majority white. I guess middle class. We send around 4 to ivies/mit/stanford/caltech a year. 70% go to local community college, some drop out, some get jobs/army, about 15% at local state university. We have a huge ap program, my school offers like 20? I’m gonna take like 15 haha.</p>
<p>Public school with around 2,000 students, but growing like crazy.
Mixed income, but generally middle to upper middle class.
Extremely white, about 93% white, rest mostly Hispanic, but also a few Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Decent academics, AP classes are generally good, most of people go to 4-year colleges after high school, but very few go out-of-state.
Mostly crime-free.</p>
<p>Well, I just graduated, but my school had around 2000 students. Not competitive at all… We have the IB program but it’s a complete joke; I hated it because it took away from our AP classes (I opted out of IB.) Relatively wealthy (or at least well off.) Mostly conservative Christians. A surprisingly large amount of Muong students… not sure why. Otherwise, mostly white with a good amount of Asians/Hispanics but barely any blacks. Academics are toted as being top-notch… which makes me fear for other public schools. Teachers are, for the most part, terrible. Classes consist of an extreme amount of busy work (think 40+ page commentaries on King Lear) and an extreme lack of actual learning… unless you’re unlucky/stupid enough to be placed in a non-AP class, in which case you sign up for the class, watch some movies, and get your A. The counselors might as well be mentally handicapped 3rd-graders… mine advised my friend to apply to UCSF… um, that’s a Med School… Most graduates go to the local community college. School is riddled with the stereotypical fake high school students… more than I think is usual. Rallies were hilarious… the disjointedness, the microphones fading in and out, the pathetic skits which no one could follow. If you can’t tell, I abhorred my high school. </p>
<p>Funny story: At graduation, they handed us papers telling us when and where to pick up our diplomas… they ran out of papers and frantically had to collect them from the students who had already received theirs. What, did they not expect all of us to graduate or something? You have 500 seniors, so you printed 300 papers? A perfect ending to a perfect 4 years…</p>
<p>Public school with an enrollment of about 1,700 students.
About 80% White/6% Hispanic/5% Black/3% Asian/6% other.
Rural area, campus in woodlands.
Decent AP class offerings, subpar IB program (although I suppose that’s somewhat acceptable for having just completed its 3rd year).
Furthest thing away from being an academic or athletic juggernaut.</p>
<p>^ lol, Jesuis, that sounds like just my high school (I’m more than likely going to end up dropping out of IB too - our school has done a terrible job of implementing it - and my school’s economic background is also a lot closer to lower-middle to middle class).</p>
<p>****ty.
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<p>CENTRAL JERSEY
VERY competitive (60% indian) . Very wealthy but not dirty rich.
3000 Kids, so a decent size. We offer 25 AP’s, All but a few sports (water polo, crew). A great variety of classes, a lot of people go to ivies, 10-15. Meh, I like my school :)</p>
<p>k-12, private day prep school. Very small; about 250 students in the upper school. Some people are very competitive, others not at all. Uniform code isn’t too strict. Many classes prepare for various AP exams but are not designated as “AP”. Kids are mostly middle class or on the wealthy side. Whites are the majority but not overwhelmingly so. Definitely not very many asians, idk why. Has a slight Christian bias for chapels but they try to keep it neutral.</p>
<p>well its kind of diverse, if you just consider white people and black people as the only two races, we barely have any mexicans 
now, imagine a school of about 1,300+, imagine about a third, maybe even a half of them being smokers and potheads, and thats my school, our sports teams suck (until i join football this year 
loljk) our founder is buried at the front entrance, and only 6% of our kids go to college, and on a worse note, WE HAVE NO HOT GIRLS. our principal’s really cool though, i hope he stays there for the rest of my high school years.</p>
<p>My public school is poor, small (less than 500 students for 9-12), and especially non-competitive.
You earn “genius status” for an 1800 SAT. There are two offered AP classes.</p>
<p>Located in Wisky, private Catholic, 400 or so kids. The building has been around since the civil war and the exterior is basically unchanged. It’s the flagship pvt. Catholic school in the district so it draws from all the parochial middle schools. It’s a huge athletic powerhouse (basketball has won state 6 out of the last 8 years) which is impressive considering we are in-conference with some gigantic, inner-city schools. Middle of the ghetto on all sides (bullet holes in some windows), lots of school spirit and decent academics. Meh, I probably wouldn’t send my
kids here. Lol</p>
<p>Public school in west Tennessee. Located around the ghetto. 2,100 students - 49% black, 3.2% Hispanic, 42% white, 5.1% Asian, .70% “other”.
7 buildings total. This fall is our 3rd year having IB. We have 5 AP classes. Our fine arts department is top notch, and our football team is good.</p>
<p>I think our mean SAT combined score is a 1560, and mean combined ACT is 20.</p>
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<p>Bullet holes? Rough.</p>
<p>@Rain202 Yea, it’s a big ole Christian fortress in the center of of the jungle. Lol. There’s a cop house next to it that they’ve built during my tenure, but it doesn’t stop the occasional ruckus outside. The biology lab has a nice sprinkling of bullet holes all up and down it’s windows. I think a couple of physics classes may have used them for some labs on trajectories. Haha. Weird little school, man.</p>
<p>@ Orangeblood</p>
<p>“our founder is buried at the front entrance”</p>
<p>That strikes me as a bit odd.</p>
<p>Smack-dab in isolated central FL. Moderately sized. Limited programs, good sports teams. Poorer math department, flourishing English department, decent science department. Frustrating, but still somewhat tolerable. It could definitely be worse, it could definitely be better.</p>