<p>I have this awesome idea of learning about each other by describing each other's high schools. Just list the type of high school, how large your class is, and activities your school is big on. Throw in weird facts too for fun. </p>
<p>I'll start with my high school:
Public
600 are in my class
The school is really big on athletics, even though the music department has as trophies and plaques.
The marching band rocks.
One administrator is a 4'11" old woman but has power that easily surpasses Goliath.</p>
<p>Lets see…</p>
<p>Class is 430 or so people.
About 50% of them are rednecks.
The school is pretty nice for being in South Carolina >.>
The school has a good soccer team and golf team.</p>
<p>One of my administrators has a glass eye, and is pretty nice.</p>
<p>Public
350 in my class
We are a major football school. It’s annoying for non-athletes, but our football team made it all the way to state this year, which was cool. Then they lost, which was not cool.
We’re undergoing massive renovations right now, and next year all underclassmen will be getting a free new ipod.</p>
<p>Public, class of about 250, big on sports and (in my opinion because I’m in it) marching band. </p>
<p>Random facts: the school board has bankrupted the district by putting so many additions on various school buildings. </p>
<p>Another random fact: we just moved up from aaa to aaaa in sports because of our school size. Therefore we are up against neighboring schools five or six times our size and are sucking in football.</p>
<p>Public, class of 350</p>
<p>We’re really big on athletics for just about every sport. This year alone, we have championships in Tennis, Cheerleading, and Volleyball. We also had our hockey and football teams make deep runs in the state playoffs. </p>
<p>Our school looks more like a shopping mall than a high school.</p>
<p>All of my school’s dances except for homecoming and prom got canceled next year because of a bunch of people were grinding, drinking, and smoking weed at the dances.</p>
<p>We’re the white school. 70% of the school is made up of white people.</p>
<p>Public, class of 400</p>
<p>We’re really big on sports, esp. basketball, swimming, and football. Almost everybody plays at least one sport.</p>
<p>Our school is more than half Asian. Everywhere you go, you see Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and other Asian kids.</p>
<p>All administrators have their ties so tight it looks like they’re choking themselves.</p>
<p>We constantly have police on campus because the admin is afraid that some kid will do something stupid and ruin the school’s reputation so we havta go to one of those school pride assemblies every few months or so. :P</p>
<p>Class of a little over 80.
We’re pretty big on sports, especially football and softball.
We’re pretty kicking for such a small school.</p>
<p>This is my high school: [ul]
[<em>]Public. About 350 in the class, 1600 overall.
[</em>]Dominates the conference in sports, especially in football.
[<em>]Racially and economically diverse, unlike most public schools here.
[</em>]Pretty average academically, you’ve got everything from a couple ivy leagues to “full time employment”
[<em>]Two buildings, one is ANCIENT and has to violate all kinds of health codes, and the other is new (2004) but already falling apart.
[</em>]Underfunded but REALLY good arts programs (Our theatre program rocks the one-act play competition every year, and there’s the music and art contests the different groups do well in)
[li]JROTC is pretty big here for whatever reason.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Since I spend half my day there, I have to mention my districts’ cross-enrollment program, where anyone from the public schools can take extra classes in Career/Tech, AP, or just cool stuff.[ul]
[<em>]1800 students, most students are here half a day and spend the other half at their ‘home school’
[</em>]Except for Art History and Italian, every AP class is offered
[<em>]About a 50/50 split between people there for APs and people there for career skills like Cosmetology and Auto Tech
[</em>]Brand new, state of the art building.
[*]No cliques, drama, or fights. If I could go back, I’d take all of my Junior and Senior year classes here.[/ul]</p>
<p>Public
Class of 26</p>
<p>located on a local community college campus
We’re a middle college program that receives students from across the school district
Up to 11 units of college classes taken per semester.</p>
<p>Some of us are involved with clubs on campus, others at our old schools, and others do sports.</p>
<p>Our district is mainly made up of minorities, typically Hispanics, Indians, Vietnamese, and Filipinos.
We have one white person and we cherish him deeply.</p>
<p>In terms of learning, and considering how small and independent we are, our high school teachers are the farthest from traditional as possible. We learn through improvised forms of GBL and presentations.</p>
<p>And we’re huge slackers, and we’re a jolly good bunch because of this.</p>
<p>20People in my grade <200 in the entire pre-k through 12th school.
Private School
Georgia
Very rarely does anyone go out of state to a good school.
Pretty much everyone plays 2-3 sports
Fencing team!!!</p>
<p>Public, about 600 in my class
Generally really good at sports, although our football team was pretty bad this year.
Everything except for academics comes first (for example, there’s a bell schedule for this Friday since we have a half day for prom, but no AP testing schedule on the website)
Our music program is above-average for the area, but not incredible or anything. Except the jazz band. The jazz band is extremely competitive.
Academically, people are pretty good, but very few are outstanding. However, the common sense is just plain awful. In a lot of honors classes, people don’t know fairly basic things, like what the WNBA is, or how you shouldn’t eat stuff if you’re allergic to it.</p>
<p>Usually about 490 graduating class freshmen year and 350 students senior year.
We’re in a low income area.
85+% hispanic
Not that many social cliques. Everybody hangs out with everyone.
Everyone assumes our school is so bad but it really isn’t
average English CST is 329 if I remember correctly. (That might be math I’m thinking of)
Our performing arts are pretty good’
Our ASB is pretty involved
Our principal is trying really hard to make the school better but is sorta making it worse</p>
<p>Public
~450 students in my class
1900 total students
School split into 3 distinct smaller schools called “academies”
1/4 high schools in the district
4x4 block schedule (sucks so much)
Currently 10 AP classes offered, 12 next year
Amazing soccer and dance team</p>
<p>~210 students in the class of '13
~900 students total
60/40 Black to White ratio
Located 3 blocks from Detroit
6 1 hour classes a day
Part of an afternoon school consortium; we can take 2 advanced/AP/art classes per day there
Sports are pretty much terrible, but the Marching Band has won States 7 of the last 8 years
Average GPA = 2. Top 10 GPA = 3.7-4. 3 kids in 11th grade have a 0.00 GPA.
Average ACT = ~18.5
Top 20 kids generally go to UofM, then there’s a significant drop-off</p>
<p>Public
4000 students in 2 campuses
a little over 900 in my graduating class
HUGE on track, football, and basketball
Liberal Arts high school so we have an auto body shop, cosmetology room, kitchen, daycare (for community not students), welding studio, one the biggest auditoriums and arts programs in the state, forensic labs, and a mac lab for journalism- we have our own TV broadcast.
Pretty diverse ~40% white, and 30% black & hispanic
Also I’m in the most dangerous city in the state…</p>
<p>400 kids a class
Big music program–we’ve won like five Grammys.
Sports are pretty good, some state champions every year
But mainly we have a principal that sends people home for wearing short shorts</p>
<p>public
<300 kids for '2012 (it’s been dropping so idk the number)
big on football and baseball
suburban
almost everyone stays in-state for college and a lot of people’s parents went to the same school
smells like warm urine right now
not many interesting people</p>
<p>can’t wait to ■■■■</p>
<p>Government-run private school
~150 kids in each class
Poor, run-down buildings. We have no ceilings - you can see the ventilation/pipes/inner-workings. We don’t have a working AC or heater for about half the classrooms.
Decent sports. Since our school is small, we usually compete against other small schools, giving us the illusion of being good. Football, track, an XC all won a couple of state-championships.
Money is kinda weird - I think whoever manages our budget does drugs. We have flat-screen TVs in every single classroom that no one ever uses, yet we still use decade-old textbooks.
School not big on education. Most kids don’t take even Algebra 2 until their senior year, and even then - many fail. We offer a handful of AP classes, each with no more than 3 to 10 people.
Around 50% of the school joins the military after graduation. Most who don’t go to a community college or in-state college.</p>
<p>*400 students in my class (2012), 1700 students total
*Sports=life. Football especially. Our football team went to the state semifinals this year, but that dream was almost killed when ~10 of the junior/senior football players were suspended for hazing (from what I heard, they tied a fellow player to a pole and hit him with something. I’ve never quite learned what. Rumors vary…) Of course, they were all back and playing when we moved to the semis…
*There are three high schools in our district, and my school has been referred to (by students at the other two schools) as the “ghetto” school because we happen to be the most diverse (…yet we’re still over 50 percent white I would guess…). And we’re the poorest/have the oldest and crappiest building. But eh whatever.
*And that’s pretty much it. I go to a pretty normal, boring high school. It could be worse.</p>
<p>Public
Nasty
It looks like a college on the outside but that’s because it was originally designed to be a prison and they over corrected when they were fixing it up.
~700 in my class
We have the strangest blocking ever; Our first and last (fifth) classes of the day stay the same, and the three in between (second, third, and fourth) change according to A days and B days.
We’re really into football, and we’ve made it to state a few times (and lost).
We have the smallest selection of classes possibly ever offered.
Our counselors are out of their minds.
I’m the first one to be on the accelerated graduation plan (3 years yeahhhh buddy) in the 11 years my school has been around.
Primarily black and mexican, with white and a few random minorities tossed around in there.</p>