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Biggest In The State

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pioneervato

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With an enrollment of over 3400 students my high school (where I teach) is the largest in the state of Arizona. My own alma mater had an enrollment of about 1200 when I graduated high school back in 1974.

How big was your high school when you graduated?
 
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Jeezuz- that's a crapload of teenagers! How many trailers (or suburbs) are involved? I can't imagine that the bldg was built for that many.

My building houses 1283 this year. The largest in our County (district) is 2690.

Tyler
 
Damn, that's big. My high school was about 2200 in 3 grades. My kids' high school was ~2000 for 4 grades.
 
tybrad said:
Jeezuz- that's a crapload of teenagers! How many trailers (or suburbs) are involved? I can't imagine that the bldg was built for that many.

My building houses 1283 this year. The largest in our County (district) is 2690.

Tyler
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Building? You must live in a big, crowded city. If I recall correctly, my high school had at least a dozen buildings. Heck, even my elementary school did! I don't remember how many students, though. I think there were 800+ in K-8 inclusive, and 1000+ in the high school. [Note: I refer only to the public high school I attended, not the private nor overseas high schools I also attended.]

Much more impressive, I think, is that my college hag something like 800 students when I was there, and today has around 1200. At higher levels, the FEWER the students, the better! Average class size in elementary and high school was around 25-30 students/class; in college, it dropped to below 10.
 
"oldfart" generation here, 26 in my graduating class.. and YES, I started in a one room school with 8 grades. and one teacher.
 
Arkay said:
Building? You must live in a big, crowded city. If I recall correctly, my high school had at least a dozen buildings. ....
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No, one bldg with 6 units in the "trailer park". The building sprawls and has 5 floors (4 full ones).
 
My graduating class at the Swain School was 7 and the headmaster told me it would have been 6 if he had any say in it. It was the first graduating class that they had. It was a private school and I got there only because I was invited not to return to Nitchman Junior High school in Bethlehem PA This was the 60's and there was very little respect for authority unless the authoritarian figures were deserving of that respect. Not proud anymore but no regrets either. Life could have been different but things turned out pretty well in the end.
 
My high school had around 1200 students in three grades, back in 1985. The local school system is realigning grades between school once again next year. We got a tour of what will be the new "intermediate" school in the system last night, which my daughter will be attending. 1300 students in one building, 5th and 6th grades. My high school alma mater, since I graduated, has shifted from three years to four years (after one expansion) then back to three years, and now they are moving the 9th graders back up to a new "9th grade academy" facility they have added to the campus. Not sure what the student count will be.
 
Grammar school - 16 in class (4 rooms, two grades per room, principal taught 7-8)

High school - 72 in class.
 
Yea, we had 432 in my senior class in '75. Probably around the 1200 number of students combined from 10-12 grades.

Man, there were some large school classes posted in this thread.

Also, to not thread crap on ole PV's thread, but do any of you remember your graduating rank?

I think I was 110 out of the 432. Nothing special, just an ordinary kid... :D

Rome
 
Class of '75, my high school had over 3000 students, and it was only one of 6 high schools in the city.
 
Rome, your numbers look about right for me as well. I tried looking it up online, & this year's senior class was 423, so not much difference, I imagine. I guess we were spoiled, with regard to class size, compared to most. :scratch2: BTW, that includes the kids who went to Vo-Tech or did that work while going to school deal, so there weren't nearly that many actually IN the school. ;) I think it was grades 9-12, so the building wasn't really that big either.
 
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Over 3,000 enrollment; don't remember the exact number. Sad thing was the bottom-heavy population due to the high dropout rate (black inner city neighborhood, I was one of 10 or 20 white kids at most). Many of the teachers were reaching retirement, and had been there through the change from middle-class Jewish neighborhood. My English teacher pointed at me one day and said "I can remember little Hymie Rickover (Hyman Rickover, father of the atomic submarine) sitting right where you are."
 
Right around 1000 when I graduated, I think they're pushing 1200 now, and that's only a 7 year gap.
 
60 (or maybe it was 62) in my graduating class in 1980. Relatively small private school. That was by quite a bit the largest class that had graduated from there.
Got quite a few *** whippin's from teachers and the principal. Private schools were NOT loathe to lay wood on you if they thought you needed it, and I did. Coaches especially liked to flex their muscles swinging the wood.
 
95 or thereabouts in my graduating class of 1986.
Our school went from Grade 8 through 12 and had about 600 students max. back then.

The same school now consists of Grade 6 through 8 students.
Students in Grades 9-12 go to a larger school having grad classes with a minimum of 1400 students.
 
Mine had approximately 3,800 students. My graduating class was well over 900. It was a big school but there were many in this area that were larger and a few that still are larger even now.
 
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