<p>my hallways look like hong kong.</p>
<p>Especially in the 7 entry junction that spans 3 floors. Sometimes there is literally no movement at all because it is so clogged.</p>
<p>What is it like going to such a small school (under 30 students in a grade). Are there enough extracurriculars or classes available? Is each grade like a clique?</p>
<p>I consider my current school middle sized, with around 120 per grade. I know the name and form class of everybody (plus who they are friends with), and I get to associate with other grades too from extracurriculars.</p>
<p>I consider my school pretty small with a graduating class of ~95 every year. Small enough to get to know everyone pretty well and get personalized attention from the teachers while big enough to have sports/extracurriculars, etc. It’s also a private school and is K-12 though so that contributes in some shape or form. Academically it’s challenging as hell but the people are nice so I can’t complain too much (because I have no time to while doing 4-5 hours of homework a night :)).</p>
<p>Lawl…for schools with less than 20 or so per graduating class, the graduation ceremony must take like 5 minutes XD</p>
<p>^ Maybe everybody gets to say a graduation speech? Like how some schools have 4+ valedictorians nowadays.</p>
<p>@ HeWhoPwnz: Oh don’t worry, we’ll figure out how to make it the length of a normal graduation. Even when we only have 8 people. :p</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say that a small school=less AP options.</p>
<p>My high school has about 130. My senior class is 43… and all of the other grades hover at about 30 students.</p>
<p>We have: AP English, AP US History, AP Euro, AP Art History, AP Calc BC, AP Calc AB, AP Stats, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP Chem, AP Enviro, AP Bio, AP Music Theory, AP Studio Art, AP French, AP Latin, AP Spanish</p>
<p>I believe that’s 16? It’s as many as any of the local public schools have, if not more.</p>
<p>But yeah… I like knowing everyone… though I also LOVE to meet new people… and that’s hard at such a small school, because we don’t get new people very often. But on the plus side, my senior class is 14% international. =D</p>
<p>And EC’s aren’t a problem. Everyone in grades 7-12 is required to play at least one sport a year, so we have: V Boys Soccer, V/JV Boys Cross Country, V/JV Girls Cross Country, V/JV Girl’s Volleyball, V Girl’s Tennis, V/JV Boy’s Basketball, V Girl’s Basketball, V Girls Swimming, V Boys Swimming, V/JV Cheerleading, V Girls Soccer, V/JV Boys Baseball, V Boys Lacrosse, V Golf…</p>
<p>And then we have community service clubs, language clubs, newspaper, yearbook, literary magazine, photography club, and anyone can start a club if they want.</p>
<p>So I’ve had no problems with going to a small school. =/</p>
<p>Lucky! ^</p>
<p>We only have 3 AP classes: AP Calculus, Statistics, and Spanish. I implemented two of those. My largest classes are 10 people. Smallest class is two people. (AP Calc) However, our school partners up with a nearby university to offer dual credit English and History classes for juniors and seniors which is nice. </p>
<p>ECs are kind of hard. Like I said, there are mostly sports and Student Council and NHS. No newspaper, language clubs, or even art. </p>
<p>Graduation is around 30 minutes long. They announce all the scholarships each student got and a lot of extra stuff. Valedictorian speaks, Saluditorian does an intro speech, and other top students say prayers, pledges, etc. </p>
<p>Clicques are really bad, but not within grades. Our school is divided between the ranchers, Hispanics, preppy girls…etc. Last year, most of my school decided to shun some foreign exchange students because of how different they were. It can get pretty bad. </p>
<p>Hm, I like the idea of having 95 to a grade. -wishes-</p>
<p>^ or 700…</p>
<p>I don’t have AP’s in my school, but not because it is small. I think the closest AP classes are in school 700 kilometers from where I live, so…</p>
<p>But we do have a good number of extracurriculars: varsity sports, drama club, volunteering club, young entrepreneurs club, student’s union, school’s band, martial band, judo, circus, and like music clubs/classes for almost every instrument out there.
I know its not like, a giant number of stuff, but for 75 students its a decent number.</p>
<p>And graduation, well, it takes around 1:30 hour here. Two people who are voted by the others say the graduation speech (me and my best friend actually! yay!) and afterwards we have a party! Around 1500 teenagers attend the party, mostly its just our friends from school and from others schools in the region.</p>
<p>We only have like 8 AP classes (class of around 260): Calc AB, Chem, Physics C, English Lit, US History, Psychology, Statistics, Studio Art.</p>
<p>Our graduation was about 1.5 hours-2 hours long, I think. It was a class of 41 last year… one of our school’s largest ever.</p>
<p>Each student gets called up from their seat. They then go get their diploma and their picture is taken, then they get their bible (Idky, because we’re not a christian school… tradition I guess. =/), and then they sit down, and the next person is called.</p>
<p>And then of course there is the val speech, the headmaster’s speech, the guest speakers, the walking in and out. Awards Night with all of the scholarships and what-not is the night before… so none of that is at Graduation.</p>
<p>But you have a class of 260 and only 8 AP Classes?? Wow… That sucks.</p>
<p>Oh and my class sizes range from 5-21 (21 being very, very rare)… but my friend is in a class of 2, and there have been classes as small as 1 before. (Is it a class at that point?)</p>
<p>English: 16
Band: 15/16
Stats: 18-20
French: 5
Euro: 14
Public Speaking: 8 (haha)</p>
<p>Stats feels terribly crowded… I don’t know what I’m going to do in college. lol</p>
<p>^I’m in a class of 2.</p>
<p>69 in my grade, many of the same people since kindergarten.</p>
<p>Well, my overall class as of right now has 442 students. However, I’m in the STEM program, which qualifies itself as a “school within a school,” and I only have eighty students in my STEM class. However, our classes are still in the regular school, which is about 2000 students, and we do athletics and electives with them. So, we get the small teaching environment (my largest class is 30 people and I’m ver close to my teachers), but all the extra APs and electives and extra curricular stuff with the big school.</p>
<p>Although my school has a little over 120 students, since we are a private school, many of my classes have 10-15 people in then, the maximum class capasity is around 23. People can take classes by correspondence if it is not offered, so some people are in a class of 1-5 people.</p>
<p>I go to school in a town of ~300. We have 19 in our graduating class, and we’re the biggest… every single one of the 19 has been in the class since kindergarten. We’re a lot like siblings, actually… we know each other pretty well. That’s not to say there aren’t cliques or drama, even though, honestly, it’s not bad at all.</p>
<p>Annnd we don’t have any AP classes, either. Only 2 years of foreign language. No calculus. There are quite a few dual-credit classes through the local community college, though. </p>
<p>It’s kinda tough to specialize in your extracurriculars… I’m basically in everything my school has to offer, and so are a lot of other people. We have band (78% of grades 8-12 is in band!), one-act, speech, FCCLA (woot woot!), lettermen’s club, journalism (usually taken as a class, though), National Honor Society, quiz bowl, volleyball, football, track, and… I’m sure I’m forgetting something else!</p>
<p>Oh yes, and since our enrollment’s been dwindling, we entered into a sports co-op with another school and now have girls’ cross country and boys’ golf. :D</p>