<p>Anyone else on here from a really small high school?</p>
<p>My high school has sixty-six kids, and my graduating class is a lovely size of seventeen. (Extremely small town of 1200) Love to hear how your school operates and what it is like for anyone else. </p>
<p>I know getting advanced classes has been really difficult, but it is nice knowing everyone.</p>
<p>In my current school’s senior class, there is a grand total of eight people including me. 
My junior year high school also had approximately 85 kids per grade… both of these are a far cry from my freshman/sophomore year high school, which had approximately 300 people per grade XD</p>
<p>Graduation is sure going to be interesting…</p>
<p>I love our high school. 1600 kids.</p>
<p>More kids=More AP classes, better lunches, and more EC’s.</p>
<p>Fledgling, are you from a small town as well? That is way small!</p>
<p>I’ve had to implement AP classes. As for lunch, we get about an hour to go off campus and eat. We have no cafeteria. It works pretty nicely; I go home and sleep usually. Our ECs revolve around sports and volunteering. It is pretty limited though.</p>
<p>My school is what I consider “comfortably sized”. 1300 kids–not too big that it feels like it’s own city, and not too small that everyone knows everyone. </p>
<p>We’d probably be considered small due to our proximity to larger areas, but we’re a decent school. Little crime and drug busts. We have just a few AP’s (around ten) and few programs, but we’re not completely deprived. We have an excellent English department and band. Our football teams are improving too :)</p>
<p>I thought fledgling was from Ann Arbor???</p>
<p>Oh wait… You moved?</p>
<p>^ Correct. And no, Anaheim’s hardly a small/quiet place… I hear fireworks every night from Disneyland and screaming while driving past Knotts’ :p</p>
<p>2800 students</p>
<p>So many APs and extracurriculars.</p>
<p>Impossible to know everyone</p>
<p>Easy to fit in.</p>
<p>4500 students would be really cool. </p>
<p>I like bigger schools-more opportunities, better facilities, more options, more recognition.</p>
<p>upwards of 3000 students.</p>
<p>Except, we’re the inner city school. With over 50% of the population below the poverty line. 2 AP Classes, used as supplements for the IB Classes.</p>
<p>about 900 IB kids. So my IB Graduating class is maybe 100 or so.</p>
<p>My school is about 900 students. With less about 100 in the senior class. Small enough to know people, big enough to meet a person everyone in a while.</p>
<p>
LOL that reminded me of a school I was looking at a while back (but didn’t end up applying to), their 2010 graduating class had a total of… 4 students; three girls, one boy.
My current school has middle&high school, with almost 700 students but the school I’m going to be at soon has around 60-90 students in each graduating class (the school is less than 10 years old) when the capacity for a grade is 120 students, which is why I got accepted even though I’m a little young.</p>
<p>3000 kids.
Around 600 are IB (so that’s like 150 in my class alone, so the competition is fierce just to get in the top 10%, let alone the top 5%).</p>
<p>there are 613 in my grade.</p>
<p>actually… more like 2500 kids in the school.</p>
<p>Our IB classes are generally 75 students, and that’s diploma + our local distinction(IB Scholar)</p>
<p>Well ECs are nice to have more in bigger schools but i get scared in crowded halls.</p>
<p>^ Lol! </p>
<p>With only 17 students in my class, the competition is weird. There are five of us all neck-and-neck, but sadly, only the top student ranks top ten percent and only the top three are in the top quarter. So, it’s not that impressive.</p>
<p>For those of you who go to large high schools, how big are your classes? Has it been easy getting to know all your teachers?</p>
<p>We have about 500 kids (~125/grade) which is pretty small compared to some of the other schools, especially the specialized ones. I hear Brooklyn Tech has ~4000 kids and Stuy has ~3200.</p>
<p>I have anywhere from 25-35 kids per class (it usually tops at 28-30, but for some reason, a few of my classes are bigger this year), and yes, it’s easy to get to know my teachers. I’m pretty close with my science teacher and few math teachers.</p>
<p>We don’t have a very diverse student body (it’s mostly whites with a few Asians) and we have few good extracurriculars and APs/electives. For example, we only offer Spanish and French for languages, and we don’t have Comp. Sci. Also, we don’t really have a choice about what classes we want to be in… We only get to choose electives, APs, and language.</p>
<p>So, it’s meh. I mean, I could be at a school like Stuy with a whole bunch of other curious, hard-working students, tons of homework, and good choices of ECs/classes, but being at a smaller school where I can stand out more has its benefits.</p>
<p>I have thirteen kids in my class including myself. The smallest class my school has had had four kids in their senior year. I think there’s about 80 kids in total, in all of high school. It gets kind of stressful sometimes, but I like it.</p>
<p>My school is pretty big. We have about 3700 students. I kind of like the anonymity being able to blend in and not knowing everybody, but it’s kind of overcrowded which sucks. It’s weird because freshman year, my class had about 1300 students, and now we’re down to almost 650.</p>
<p>I go to a very small school too. 75 students in HS, and 24 in my graduation class… It sucks, and I wish I went to a bigger school.
But on the other hand, some things are very positive: we get very personalized attention from the teachers, and we actually create a very close connection with them; even if you are antisocial/weird/quiet everyone knows your name and who you are, so you never get to feel invisible or forgotten; everyone just kinda is friends with almost everyone.
And that’s pretty much it.</p>