<p>My school.is very.... strange. My school is located in a" low income" neighborhood, so some kids don't care about their education. In my school, kids wear their pajamas, wear capes, bring blankets and stuffed animals to school, and wear their bunny slippers when it is cold. Also my school doesn't have school spirit, half the kids don't know what is going on sometimes, and only the top 5% of my class actually study.
So anyone go to a weird school like mine?</p>
<p>Rural, public, co-ed, 800 students, 98% white, 60% of students go on to a two-year or four-year college. The median income for a household in the area is $29,000. We had four AP classes last year and seven this year. </p>
<p>People are nice enough, but my high school is nothing like this website. Even the people who do well in school don’t really have any grand aspirations, because there are “no jobs around here.” Almost no one goes out-of-state for college. The girls all want to be LPNs and the guys all want to be mechanics/roofers/electricians. I’m generalizing, obviously.</p>
<p>75% of the students are considered low income - we are one of the most diverse schools in the country, with around 20% of students being White, 20% Black, 20% Asian, 20% Hispanic/Latino. However, as a whole, we’re considered high achieving - roughly 20 APs offered in class, with the rest online, around 65% of students pass one or more exams (of those enrolled in APs.) We’ve sent kids to Harvard and Brown before but the large majority go to UMass or the local community college.</p>
<p>suburban, christian private, high tuition so everyone is wealthy and 90% white. Avg class size is around 120. Everyone goes to college basically, albeit to random community colleges and the state flagship if they’re “geniuses”. One kid went to Princeton once, though he was a legacy athlete. A kid in my grade dedicated to Duke for basketball, but once again he was an athlete. Everyone who has applied to super selective schools for solely academics has gotten rejected. Good news for me!</p>
<p>My school is rather suburban, and still fairly new. It’s a public school with a very good academic reputation (ranked in the top 150 high schools in America, by one recent report). Many families in vaguely nearby sections of the city try to get in, despite being outside of its area.
[2013</a> America’s Best High Schools - Newsweek](<a href=“http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/05/06/america-s-best-high-schools.html]2013”>http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/05/06/america-s-best-high-schools.html)</p>
<p>There’s a rather large population of very academically motivated people here, and those who aren’t can often end up being frowned upon. It’s the kind of school where you may actually see people miserable (or even on the rare occasion, crying) over getting B’s. </p>
<p>There are a lot of really great teachers here who really try to get students into their subjects (at least in my experience), and I love this school to death. I’m really going to miss it here.</p>
<p>suburb, maybe 60 years old, public school. Lots of Asians. Everyone goes to college, and 85% go to 4 year schools. People freak out over getting Bs. The teachers aren’t great, it’s the students who are. Not very many low income kids, but the gap between low income/high income students is extreme. There are many people who successfully do many extracurriculars yet maintain their GPAs, but it’s not for everyone (like me). I am glad that this is my last year there.</p>
<p>Suburb, one of the wealthiest counties in the country, public school, most go to college but a good number just go to the local community college. Significant number of us are pretty studious but you don’t see anyone crying over a B (except for a couple people).</p>
<p>Nationally ranked (around #50-60) public school. 2000+ students. Average ACT is a 27. Average AP score is a 4. And it was on TV today.</p>
<p>Public school. 2500 students. Pretty wealthy district. 80% white, 20% Asian, 4 black kids. Average SAT is a 1700- many go to our state flagship, many go out of state.</p>
<p>Public school. 50% white, 25% black, 25% Hispanic. Split between high income/low income with great disparity between the two. Large. More than 2000 students. Offers lots of AP’s and honors classes for those who are interested. Sends a good number of kids to UVA, William & Mary. VTech, etc (in state). Ivy acceptances are rare but every year someone gets into UPenn or Cornell, mostly for sports but not always.</p>
<p>Public school; ~60% White, ~10% Asian (moi) ~10% Hispanic, ~20% Black</p>
<p>Last year’s val is going to Dartmouth. I think last year’s sal is going to brown or something of the sort</p>
<p>Community college in Intel’s back yard. You can’t go far here without meeting an Intel employee. Two of them are even in my physics class.</p>
<p>Very large, new, suburban public high school. Demographically, a diverse mix with people moving from every corner of the world-
45% white, 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian, 5% black
Average income for families in this area is over $100,000 as almost all families are very well educated and wealthy.
School offers every AP class except Russian and Japanese, and the typical weighted GPA of someone in the top 10% is over 4.46. Crazy competitive, everyone with very high goals as many get admitted to “Public ivies” or very selective private institution. For example, this years val got accepted to MIT while last years is at Harvard now.</p>
<p>OP, I come from a tiny, suburban, community-based charter school without AP classes and with grades 6-12. However, lots of students take harder courses at the community college like Calculus 2. It’s a hippie dippie place right next to the third most dangerous city in the US with one sport. Our classes are so small, we don’t even have a valedictorian. A lot of people are more committed to EC’s but barely study. Three quarters of the kids have very well-off parents, but the remaining are either lower middle class or considered under privileged.</p>
<p>Also, no school spirit exists as we just established a mascot (it used to change every year based on the seniors)</p>
<p>Relatively small school in the southeast; all kids who attend have a parent actively serving in the military. Located in a Diverse, probably 50-60% white, 20-30% black, 10-20% Hispanic, handful of Pacific Islanders, almost no Asians. Due to the nature of our school, kids move in and out very frequently - only about 30% of our graduating class attended our school as a freshman. Many kids have attended three or four high schools by the time they are a senior here. </p>
<p>Most kids are involved with the military after graduation, more than half probably. Some enter right after graduation, others go to college and enter their ROTC programs. Some don’t go to college at all, and those that do usually go to community college or one of our state schools. Kids don’t really go to top schools here. Excluding service academies which we’ve had several acceptances over the past decade, we usually only have one or two kids every three years or so that go to a top 20 school.</p>
<p>Rural, public high school. Like 99% white. Massive school spirit, with a good football team. Only about half of my class cares and I’m only competing with 3-5 other students. There’s a good pre-engineering program. Only 3 APs, 2 of which are online. And very good teachers compared to similar schools. Overall, it’s actually a good school, relative to surrounding districts and other schools like it.</p>
<p>Suburb, extremely wealthy (average household income is like 120,000 with about 1/2 who live in 1+mil houses), 70% white, 30% asian, pretty competitive- 5% goes to ivy leagues, and like 30-40% to top 50 schools</p>
<p>Suburban. A little more than 3600 students. Pretty mixed. 30-ish% white, 30-ish% Black, 25-ish% Hispanic, 7% Asian (mostly Vietnamese). Most people dream about getting accepted to in-state schools. Fantastic athletics. Our teams usually end up going to championships.</p>
<p>School pride: only happens when the other school comes over to graffiti the place up or slash the tires of cars with school stickers on them. </p>
<p>Drugs: every week, you are guaranteed to smell some “wacky tobaccy” when you walk near the bathrooms.</p>
<p>Sex: I accidentally got placed in a dance class because all the other classes filled up. About 8/30 dropped out of school because they got pregnant.</p>
<p>Academics: if you are in ap classes, your teachers and substitute teachers will respect everybody. If not, then prepare to be offended. There are a lot of ap classes available. Most of the ap teachers have been here since the school opened (1980s), and love teaching. There are smart kids who go to harvard and mit, and other kids who go nowhere.</p>
<p>My high school is pretty competitive, we’re ranked in the top 100 public schools in the country! Around two dozen kids go to the Ivies/MIT/Stanford every year, and most of the other kids end up at top 50 schools. I’m not too sure of the demographics but we’re not a very diverse school, unfortunately-- around half the kids are white and half the kids are asian. Our sports teams aren’t very good but we make up for it by being spirited, haha. </p>
<p>We’re also located in one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country. Aww yeah.</p>
<p>Small school 100%. White and male</p>
<p>Extremely uncompetitive</p>
<p>Imgoing to be the val pretty much no matter what happens</p>