Describe your high school

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>3600 kids and getting bigger with each class.</p>

<p>No 50% majority with any one group, 45% white, 30% hispanic, 15% black, 10% asian. This makes for a pretty interesting mix and even if you don’t speak spanish, by graduation you will know the basics and how to swear.</p>

<p>For the most part it’s pretty competitive and 90% of graduates end up at some type of college, 5% go into the armed services anda few other kids get CISCO or EMT certified or a cosmetology liscence in highschool. Very few kids do nothing or work minimum wage jobs after graduation.</p>

<p>Tons of AP classes although right now you can’t take most of them until your a junior, there also classes geared towards specific careers like auto tech, manufacturing, accounting, graphic design, early childhood education, athletic training, basically if you can’t find a class your interested in your not looking hard enough.</p>

<p>Teachers in english, history, AP and career specific classes are, for the most part very good, science is hit and miss but we do have some outstanding teachers, math only has a few good teachers and you will probably end up with some one who couldn’t find another job at least one year. We have for different distinctions for classes, regulars, honors, AP, and dual credit (you earn high school and college credit for a high school class).</p>

<p>Athletics is pretty big as is school spirit. You actually can take a sport as your gym class, for instance during season I finish 6th period go to the locker room and head to the field for soccer (which is my 7th period) and we practice until 4ish, I think this is a texas thing.</p>

<p>Where starting an academy system but so far it hasn’t really worked</p>

<p>Overall it’s a good school, I’m glad I go there :slight_smile:
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<p>Public, school as a whole is not particularly wealthy, located in a middle class area. The total student body is around 2000 students. There are some people that come from wealth, but they spend their money on all the wrong things. If some students focused more on their studies than getting throwed the school as a whole would be much smarter. The school is pretty new, so it’s not quite as established as some high schools in the area. Some of the teachers don’t teach…I hate to say it, but my school is not competitive at all.</p>

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<p>large 2000+
terrible administration who are more likely to cut higher level courses and AP courses and educational electives over sports
dont remember anyone who ever went to ivy from our school
mostly white, more minorities beginning to come in
not at all wealthy, way too many budget cuts</p>

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<p>Large public school, we have 800-1000 people per grade even though our school is only built for like a thousand kids total. We’re 52% Hispanic, like 21% white, 22% black, and the rest would be asian and Indian and all that. Though being in mainly honors/ap classes, my classes are about 70% Asian. (I counted once during finals cause I was bored haha.)
We have a reputation as ghetto, and we have a bitter rivalry with the two rich schools in our area. We also have the highest graduation rate out of every HS within fifty miles. We send tons to cal states, probably around twenty or thirty to ucs, a few to little known lacs, a couple get athletic scholarships, but at least 60% doesn’t go to college or goes to a cc. Most who go to CC never move on past that. From what I know, we’ve never sent anyone to ivies.</p>

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<p>medium public high school ~1520 students. There is about 400 kids per grade.
student:teacher - 22.4:1
Excellent Athletics
Strong Academics
Decent Fine Arts
We send about 40ish to the ivies and top tier schools (not necessarily ivies but really good- see CC Top Universities for reference)
Then most everybody else goes to various state schools and some LACs(not necessarily in our state) We have some that go to community college and about 10-tops that forgo college altogether</p>

<p>Our school is like 98% white. But the asians (all of asia) who do go to the school are all in the top 30. In some of my classes though, I’m the only non-white.
Area is upper middle class and upper class
Its not competitive overall but the Top 10 are all very close in scores, hardworking and competitive
The school itself pretty good. #1 non-magnet public high school in the state (although my state is consistently in the bottom 7 for education) Top 200 school in the nation</p>

<p>Everybody at my school is uber sheltered (infuriatingly so) and we live in a suburban white bubble.</p>

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<p>Does anyone’s schools have “senior pranks”?</p>

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<p>My school is pretty big, 500+ in each class. My class has about 534 people. We live in a pretty middle class area, the school is well regarded in the area. I feel like the school isn’t really as great as people make it out to be; this year they installed cameras throughout our school, we have a theft problem. The students are pretty competitive and we send some to the ivies. We also have some really slow and ghetto kids. Also, for some reason we have like 3 students who walk around with dogs b/c they have anxiety problems, what a joke.</p>

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<p>^(post #66) Nope, we don’t do that. They threaten that we don’t graduate if we do any sort of senior prank if the school finds out who did it, no matter how small.</p>

<p>My class did a really funny prank freshman year that no one ever forgot. In one class, someone put a small electronic machine in the ceiling tiles that made a fart sound when you pressed a button on a remote, and people just kept passing the remote around to different class periods. Teachers actually thought someone had an “issue” and needed to go to the bathroom and made comments about it. One teacher said “ok, if someone has a problem they need to take care of, we’ll all close our eyes and they can leave and go to the bathroom and we can get back to class.” It was funny that teachers believed it! It was in a larger lecture type class that combined 3 of our smaller classes every other day, with 3 teachers.</p>

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<p>At my school:</p>

<p>Class of 2010: Draw messages (in sidewalk chalk :P) all over the school and camp in the student parking lot.</p>

<p>Class of 2011: Do a failed flash-mob type dance at graduation.</p>

<p>Needless to say, I’m hoping I can get some people to pull off something much better for the class of 2012. I know that a class in the past has put a golf cart in the pool, so I’m hoping to do just as well (but not as damaging).</p>

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<p>@314159265
The flash-mob dance sounds hilarious!</p>

<p>I’ve heard rumors such as an acted-out, dramatic poker game in the middle of every hallway with British accents. I don’t really like that one.</p>

<p>Another one is for every senior to lie down around the school.</p>

<p>Last one is to get a bunch of chickens and set them loose. I like this one, but it will be hard to accomplish.</p>

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<p>It was! Though, not in a good way. When only about 20% of the graduating senior class does it (out of sync, might I add), it’s hilariously bad. :P</p>

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<p>@ iluvpiano
“My class did a really funny prank freshman year that no one ever forgot. In one class, someone put a small electronic machine in the ceiling tiles that made a fart sound when you pressed a button on a remote, and people just kept passing the remote around to different class periods.”</p>

<p>That’s so funny!</p>

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<p>My school isn’t competitive in a cutthroat way, but people still strive to excel, obviously. Our academic teams are more respected than our sports teams. :stuck_out_tongue: It’s the smallest school in my county with only 1500 students, but it’s just barely over-enrolled and they’re anticipating tons more students in the coming years once the DC Metro gets built out to here, so we’re starting some pretty large renovations soon. It has the best IB program in the state(Virginia) according to US News. Economically, the student body consists of two groups, basically: the faux-ghetto kids who live in apartments near the school, and everyone else who lives in the more affluent suburbs a bit farther out. Many of said suburbs are in one of the richest zip codes in the US, and the county ranks second overall in income.</p>

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<p>Small public school ~400 students in the entire school. We are moderately wealthy, only because a wealthy gated community is in the town. We have very strong music programs. My grade is competitive with our rankings only separated by a hundredth of a percent. We are very white (always joked about in our school, we all say we can name all the black kids in the school) but we do have a rising Hispanic population and for some reason like 4 foreign exchange students which seems weird for such a small public school.</p>

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<p>I’m actually liking my school right now. the principal/vp is throwing us a legit carnival the last day of school.</p>

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<p>@drinksuited</p>

<p>Awesome! The school spirit at my school is pretty good, but after the finals, NOBODY comes in.</p>

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<p>Mid-sized public high school (1500)
50% White, 35% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% Asian</p>

<p>Above average athletics (top program in baseball, basketball, girls’ soccer)</p>

<p>Above average academics - Not to be racist or anything but the majority of the lower-income minority students really bring down the school’s academics. My teacher even said this. There’s such a wide gap between those students and typical White and Asian students. The school does poorly on state tests, but does really well on AP tests and the such.</p>

<p>Most students go to the University of Delaware. Some students venture elsewhere. I think that only a few students have gone to an Ivy League or a top university in the past few years.</p>

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<p>@Lilred13 man youre lucky, i used to do the same when i live in texas when i played football and basketball, now i moved to this crappy state known as kentucky. :/</p>

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<p>@Orangeblood1496</p>

<p>Is your school small? How many kids per classroom?</p>

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<p>@drinksuited
I envy you</p>