<p>Very wealthy(one of the wealthiest counties in the US), with tons of white people.
A few Hispanics and black, and almost no Asians.</p>
<p>Not very competitive, though. Everyone’s laziness kinda rubs off each other.</p>
<p>Medium (around 1000 students), middle class. White is the majority with around 35% black and also a significant Hispanic population. Top 20% is usually intelligent students. Only 3 AP classes offered, and the average ACT score is around 19.</p>
<p>Not competitive. More emphasis is placed on athletics than academics.</p>
<p>15 buildings with most of them falling apart. Two or three brand new buildings.</p>
<p>small public school (~400). technically considered ‘inner city’ which is hilarious because it’s in a suburb. example of how the media uses words like ‘urban’ and ‘inner city’ when they really mean BROWN PEOPLE OH MY GOD. there’s another high school near that’s HUGE, rich, and with an enormous white majority. people hate our school because they are racist. (i’m not even kidding.) our school has a very bad reputation in the surrounding community (again, racism) but we have some of the best performing academic teams and athletic teams which out-perform huge schools in many cases. </p>
<p>white minority, which is awesome. split between mexican and black majority. almost no asians. poor. we have a lot of really great students. i think it’s important to emphasis the difference between students who are very interested in knowledge vs students who are very interested in climbing the ivory tower. we’ve got more of the former. i wouldn’t call it competitive at all. we’ve had a good handful of students go on to ivy schools and other great schools. low test scores, but that’s because a lot of our mexican students don’t speak english fluently. having a lot of mexican students (many of which who weren’t born in the US) is cool because a lot of people speak spanish who didn’t grow up with it just because of exposure. we have lots of honors and AP classes, which i took before i did PSEO. administration sucks a lot. we get a lot of exchange students. </p>
<p>there’s no where else i’d rather be from, and i seriously mean that. this school made me who i am.</p>
<p>I went to boarding school during the fall semester. That was interesting.</p>
<p>The school I now attend is in the middle of the country has about 500 students. Almost all of the classes offered are basic classes required for graduation.</p>
<p>I’m taking a few AP classes next year, and I’ll have to take them online. This option wasn’t even offered until the 2010-2011 school year.</p>
<p>This year’s valedictorian had a 28 on the ACT and her score was the highest of the top 10 graduates. It’s not difficult to graduate with honors at all. When I scored a 31 in April, all of the faculty was ecstatic.</p>
<p>I’m not going to feel very accomplished at all when I graduate. Hahahaha.</p>
<p>@NameNotTaken exactly, i found that out during freshman orientation last year, i walk in, i was about to touch the nice little marble slab they had that had nice designs on it, and then theyre like “HEY! DO NOT TOUCH THAT! thats our founder buried there!” weird bastards, ever heard of a cemetery? -____-</p>
<p>@Orangeblood1496</p>
<p>ha ha! That’s so funny!</p>
<p>I just graduated from HS, but this is what my HS was like:</p>
<p>Small, private Catholic high school of 600 kids (142 in my graduating class).</p>
<p>AP/Honors classes- School says 57% of students take them, although some of those people only have taken a couple of them. Offers about 15 AP classes and 10 or so honors classes.</p>
<p>95% or more white, so not racially diverse at all, a mere 5% or so of minorities, so our school kinda looks bad on that side of things.</p>
<p>Most people are upper middle class and most people seem to act like they have money (nice cars, designer things they wear to school even though we wear uniforms, etc., expensive house)</p>
<p>In general, everyone (or almost everyone) graduates and goes to college. 99% graduated this year, and 95% going to 4-year college and another 2-3% to a 2-year college. Last year was better: 100% graduated, 97% 4-year college and 3% 2-year college, so everyone went to some type of college.</p>
<p>Sorta competitive with AP classes and honors rankings, etc., but not overly competitive. I think the GPAs for the top 15-20 kids or so this year graduated with GPAs that are really close. Valedictorian ACT was 35, going to Carleton this fall. Sometimes we have 1-2 people who go to an Ivy, but not all the time; most go to good midwestern schools, rather than really far away.</p>
<p>Well my school is small. About 45 people in the high school lol. Its in a relatively wealthy community and full of rich kids</p>
<p>There is a goat that roams the campus and chases people and jumps on cars. I am not making this up. There are also feral dogs in the driveway of the school that chase cars lol. </p>
<p>It’s a church sponsored private school and unfortunately the main denomination is the one that hates fun. I.e. dancing and parties and all traditional school functions lol </p>
<p>And the class below me has 5 people in it lol</p>
<p>^ Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that there is an abundance of feral cats around campus. You only ever really see them if you’re at the school at night, though.</p>
<p>Public
Grades 9-12
3,000+ kids
Inland Southern California
Economically, we have mildly affluent students to some below the poverty line
Asian minority; I guess equal white/black/Hispanic
Successful AP/Honors programs
Very diverse student body
Not much school spirit
A small group of smart kids (about 50) and an even smaller group of elite kids (I say 4) while the remaining 650ish kids just DGAF</p>
<p>pretty much the same as pi. </p>
<p>Public 9-12
~3500 total kids
~800+ my grade
Middle class - upper middle class for the most part
60% white, 20% black, 10% hispanic, 10% other.
Almost all APs offered and a really big variety of honors classes and pretty much just a huge selection of random classes.
Ehh, decent amount of school spirit
yeah, 50-60 smart kids that try really hard and take APs and all that stuff, within that are about 20ish even smarter kids who take even more APs and more ec’s and stuff. and the rest just do what they do. But, I think within the top 10% it’s pretty competitive. In that group, ACTs are about 33/34 average, high GPA, high SATs, rigorous course load. yep.
Sends about 10-20 to top 20 schools.</p>
<p>wow some of these schools are bigger than my entire hometown o_O</p>
<p>ah my high-school. I’d say we have about 2400 kids.</p>
<p>I’d say about 15% of people here take all AP/honors classes. Everyone else usually combines Honors/AP classes with some on level classes.</p>
<p>The Asians here are pretty stereotypical except for the few that play sports. They’re pretty cool. The black kids are stereotypical except for like 3 of them.
80% of the kids are upper middle class, 10% are super rich, and 10% are just middle class. </p>
<p>Most of the people here are either white or Asian. Very few blacks or Latinos. The top 10% of the kids usually go to top 20 schools. Valedictorian got accepted into MIT and Yale. 2300+ SATs are common among this group. Most people in the top 10% are either middle-eastern or Asian. </p>
<p>The school spirit in intense. I really have pride in my school. About 60% of kids play a school sport. The kids here are athletic as hell, and the guys on the football team are too strong. </p>
<p>Drugs are so common. About 55% of kids do some sort of drug. Weed is incredibly common, it’s not even weird anymore. I’ve gotten so used to it. There’s a house close to the school where kids go to smoke on early release days. It’s called the “Meth” house.</p>
<p>I go to a public high school with ~1500 kids. We’re academically the worst out of four traditional high schools in the second-largest district in the county (~18,000 kids) but athletically the best. Our high school has the greatest African American population of the four high schools in my district (another school has the most Asians and Jewish people, and the other two are average), about half of the kids are from very middle class or lower middle class backgrounds, with the other half from slightly more upper middle class families.</p>
<p>Maybe 20% of people take some honors/AP classes. School spirit does not exist (people pretend to sleep at pep rallies, so they don’t really bother organizing them any more; every time a school dance is proposed, it fails due to less than 100 people buying tickets–except for prom and homecoming, fortunately), drugs and alcohol is commonplace (we had a survey of ~120 students in our epically-sh1tty newspaper once, with 50% of respondents saying they had smoked pot at least once in high school and I think 70% saying they had consumed non-trivial amounts of alcohol in the same time period). Last year, one kid came to class high and passed out, so they had to call am ambulance and then they suspended him for a semester. Often, kids come to school high and don’t pass out, so there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Also, they did a random search of cars once and two people had almost felony-level amounts of weed, so they got suspended for a month. Drugs have been a problem since middle school–I remember in sixth grade they brought in a couple of officers to search the bathrooms after people complained that it smelled like someone had been smoking weed in there. Not sure what happened after that. Also, last year, we were having class outside, and these two detectives drive up, go into the school for five minutes, come out with this one kid, drive off with him for half an hour, and then bring him back. We were all wondering wth was going on.</p>
<p>We used to have this cool school resource officer (i.e., a designated police officer), but he had to leave after tackling this one guy who was trying to make moves on some girl who had had problems with the guy in the past. Also, one guy last year was suspended for hitting a principal, who almost sued him.</p>
<p>Our counselors are useless–three of them left after 2009/2010 (one had faked a parent signature on a college application, one retired, and another decided to work somewhere else), so now we have three new useless counselors who (seriously) I’ve seen spend their time watching YouTube videos in the main counselor’s office room. Also, they don’t counsel at all, and most are unhelpful and unsympathetic regarding class schedules.</p>
<p>We average ~1 senior going to an Ivy League each year. People always say that you shouldn’t bother applying to MIT–the last time someone got accepted there, it was like ten years ago. A small group (~20) of the “smart” people are genuinely smart and nice; the rest are either phonies (hello, Holden Caulfield) or druggies who are just book-smart.</p>
<p>The teachers are usually incredibly stupid, and it’s common for kids to ■■■■■ them. A few are great, but they’re rare.</p>
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<p>same here, ahaha.</p>
<p>SoCal public school. Relatively rich suburb. ~2.5k kids. Ranked in the Top 200 schools in the nation.</p>
<p>Mine is VERY COMPETITIVE. 2000~ Kids
In the top 10 high schools of america.</p>
<p>But you know, that’s because they force us into APs.
Very nerdy. Everyone is obsessed with memes and pokemon and stuff like that.
Commonly sends kids to competitive schools.</p>
<p>Located in the ghetto, but doesn’t accept the locals, it’s all application. People who attend are usually pretty wealthy.</p>
<p>Public school located in southwest michigan, about 1000 kids in 9-12. My grade is said to be the smartest ever in the history of my school. Like 80/230 got academic letters for having greater than a 3.8 gpa but there is quite a bit of grade inflation. Like the top 40 kids take a few honors and AP but there are only ~10 who do more than one or two each year starting junior year. Last year we sent one to Harvard, one to Dartmouth, and like 20 to UMich. Like 90% white, 3% black, 1% Hispanic and Asian. On the other hand, the neighboring town is like more than 90% black and was taken over by the state of MI lol.</p>
<p>@seancarpenter
20 to UMich? Impressive.</p>
<p>I think a not-so-competitive school like mine is better for me! I could have gone to Princeton High School, which I hear is extremely competitive.</p>
<p>Public, ~1400 students, central Virginia. Due to the agriculture in the area we have a very large Hispanic population, possibly as much as 50%, which makes for a strange stratification because the top students are often the children of UVa professors. We usually send 4-5 to Ivy/ Ivy-equivalents each year and maybe 15 or so to UVa, although it seems like less are going there this year. A TON of people end up at JMU and Virginia Tech, but interestingly rarely more than 3 or 4 go to W&M.</p>