Poll of the Day > What your school crowded?

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My high school was. Every year, the classes got bigger. And more students would be in each graduating class. They knew they were running out of room when I was a freshman. So, they bought an older school when I was a sophomore. And by the time I was a junior, we had an annex. Just for the extra 9th graders. We have temporaries, which were the trailer like things outside. And we also had modules, which were like temporaries, but part of the school. And another school that looked just like ours had this weird extra hallway connected because they also ran out of space... The 9th graders could either have all their classes at the annex, all at the actual high school, or half and half. It would be 2 at each. It could be high school, then annex or vice versa. And they had buses to take them... Anyway, was you school crowded. And how did they fix the problem, if they did? Or how did they try, again, if they did?
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Mostly at the beginning of the school year. We had a little under 2,500 students but about 40% would drop out by November/December.
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No my high school had just over 100 students
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Wii3Kings posted...

Mostly at the beginning of the school year. We had a little under 2,500 students but about 40% would drop out by November/December.

Why? What kind of school did you go to? And every year was like that?
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Hard to say, because every school I ever attended seemed like it had a lot of students (except maybe when I was attending a private school). Granted, class sizes were smaller in the lower grades.

Mead posted...

No my high school had just over 100 students

Is that a typo or a reference I'm not getting?
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My graduating class was around 70 students. I went to a private military school. There were somewhere between 500-800 students at the school, and it went from k-12 (although the elementary school had a significantly smaller student population than the middle and high school).
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The Jr. High I went was dangerous over crowded, can only imagine now 15ish years later.
Literally couldnt move in the hallways other the the same way as the flow of people.
I think the school was built for 300-400 students but had 700ish when i was there. One thing i really hated about that school (or the teachers) they would get mad at you for carrying all your text books in your bag, instead of putting them in your locker, but only had one minute to get between classes. Would get in trouble for being late, so it was impossible to actually get to class and go to your locker in that one minute.

The problem with my town is they keep building elementary schools, but not adding Jr High/High Schools.

My High School was crowded, but it was still wasnt as bad.
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Wouldn't say crowded but all the kids fit just nicely. Around 600 kids grades 9-12 and there weren't too many empty lockers at the beginning of the year.
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Mead posted...

No my high school had just over 100 students

Small school...

Zeus posted...

Hard to say, because every school I ever attended seemed like it had a lot of students (except maybe when I was attending a private school). Granted, class sizes were smaller in the lower grades.

So, it's hard to say if it was crowded or just normal for a public school?

PMarth2002 posted...

My graduating class was around 70 students. I went to a private military school. There were somewhere between 500-800 students at the school, and it went from k-12 (although the elementary school had a significantly smaller student population than the middle and high school).

Makes sense, I guess. Small graduating class, though. How was military school?

Ogurisama posted...

The Jr. High I went was dangerous over crowded, can only imagine now 15ish years later.
Literally couldnt move in the hallways other the the same way as the flow of people.
I think the school was built for 300-400 students but had 700ish when i was there. One thing i really hated about that school (or the teachers) they would get mad at you for carrying all your text books in your bag, instead of putting them in your locker, but only had one minute to get between classes. Would get in trouble for being late, so it was impossible to actually get to class and go to your locker in that one minute.

The problem with my town is they keep building elementary schools, but not adding Jr High/High Schools.

My High School was crowded, but it was still wasnt as bad.

We had issues like that, too. I was always late for a class because of how far I had to go. Even when I didn't go to my locker. I ended up having to get a closer class...

PuddingBoy posted...

Wouldn't say crowded but all the kids fit just nicely. Around 600 kids grades 9-12 and there weren't too many empty lockers at the beginning of the year.

That's good that it wasn't overcrowded...
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LinkPizza posted...

Wii3Kings posted...

Mostly at the beginning of the school year. We had a little under 2,500 students but about 40% would drop out by November/December.

Why? What kind of school did you go to? And every year was like that?

I also went to a school with a very large drop out rate. it didn't help when guidance counselors would encourage it. my guidance counselor suggested it despite the fact I had all A's and B's but was failing one class (just that grading period)

I later learned they ranked pretty high in the state on test scores and it helped if they weeded out anyone who would lower those statistics for them.

edit: on topic though i've been to a few high schools. and one lets just say we had so many people that by law they had to allow students to eat outside because it would take more than 4 lunch periods to spread it thin enough to allow everyone in the cafeteria without going over maximum occupancy by fire code.
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Up until my senior year, yeah. We were getting kids from all over the area, mostly from a suburb down the way that didn't have a school yet.

Mine got a lot better when I was 16~, because the new wing opened and the place felt a lot roomier. Prior to that, it was pretty cramped.
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Zeus posted...

Is that a typo or a reference I'm not getting?

Are you not aware that there are small schools in this country?
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LinkPizza posted...

Wii3Kings posted...

Mostly at the beginning of the school year. We had a little under 2,500 students but about 40% would drop out by November/December.

Why? What kind of school did you go to? And every year was like that?

Pretty much. Drop out rates were high in the early/mid 90s. I live in a large city and a lot of students dropped out of the schools here. The parents would put their kids in different schools every year in hopes that they would stay in school, but that really didn't work.
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Only around 3000.

You get away with so much when none of the teachers know you.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Wii3Kings posted...

Mostly at the beginning of the school year. We had a little under 2,500 students but about 40% would drop out by November/December.

Why? What kind of school did you go to? And every year was like that?

I also went to a school with a very large drop out rate. it didn't help when guidance counselors would encourage it. my guidance counselor suggested it despite the fact I had all A's and B's but was failing one class (just that grading period)

I later learned they ranked pretty high in the state on test scores and it helped if they weeded out anyone who would lower those statistics for them.

edit: on topic though i've been to a few high schools. and one lets just say we had so many people that by law they had to allow students to eat outside because it would take more than 4 lunch periods to spread it thin enough to allow everyone in the cafeteria without going over maximum occupancy by fire code.

Jeez... that's pretty bad about encouraging kids to dropout. Has anything been done about that? That's like really bad... and the one with the eating outside is kinda bad. But I mean, that is very crowded...

Wii3Kings posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Wii3Kings posted...

Mostly at the beginning of the school year. We had a little under 2,500 students but about 40% would drop out by November/December.

Why? What kind of school did you go to? And every year was like that?

Pretty much. Drop out rates were high in the early/mid 90s. I live in a large city and a lot of students dropped out of the schools here. The parents would put their kids in different schools every year in hopes that they would stay in school, but that really didn't work.

That sucks that the dropout rate was so high...
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WastelandCowboy posted...

Up until my senior year, yeah. We were getting kids from all over the area, mostly from a suburb down the way that didn't have a school yet.

Ah...So, it was basically because of a lack of schools...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Mine got a lot better when I was 16~, because the new wing opened and the place felt a lot roomier. Prior to that, it was pretty cramped.

Building more school does seem to help. If they have the time and money, that is...

Cacciato posted...

Zeus posted...

Is that a typo or a reference I'm not getting?

Are you not aware that there are small schools in this country?

This is true. I've heard of them many times. Being in the military helps when learning about a lot of different places. But, also just talking to people gets the same job done...

Yellow posted...

Only around 3000.

You get away with so much when none of the teachers know you.

I mean, that is true... Haha.
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My school sits at around 200 students but it's a middle and high school. My graduating class is only going to be like 40 people
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Garlands_Soul posted...

My school sits at around 200 students but it's a middle and high school. My graduating class is only going to be like 40 people

That's very small. Especially since it's both middle and high. Small town, I'm guessing...
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LinkPizza posted...

Garlands_Soul posted...

My school sits at around 200 students but it's a middle and high school. My graduating class is only going to be like 40 people

That's very small. Especially since it's both middle and high. Small town, I'm guessing...

Yeah, very small. We don't even have a restaurant in town and only this year did our first specialty shop of any kind open up. It's some board game shop.

It makes the classes a whole lot more personal and I know pretty much everyone in town, but it can get a little monotonous.
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Garlands_Soul posted...

LinkPizza posted...

Garlands_Soul posted...

My school sits at around 200 students but it's a middle and high school. My graduating class is only going to be like 40 people

That's very small. Especially since it's both middle and high. Small town, I'm guessing...

Yeah, very small. We don't even have a restaurant in town and only this year did our first specialty shop of any kind open up. It's some board game shop.

It makes the classes a whole lot more personal and I know pretty much everyone in town, but it can get a little monotonous.

I understand. Though that could be useful, too. Knowing everyone...
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LinkPizza posted...

So, it's hard to say if it was crowded or just normal for a public school?

Pretty much.

Cacciato posted...

Zeus posted...

Is that a typo or a reference I'm not getting?

Are you not aware that there are small schools in this country?

Are you not aware that small communities usually pool their students together into a single high school rather than have several abysmally tiny schools? And, while there are certainly small high schools out there, 100 students doesn't seem weirdly low to you? I mean, the senior class must have only been 15-20 students.
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Zeus posted...

LinkPizza posted...

So, it's hard to say if it was crowded or just normal for a public school?

Pretty much.

Cacciato posted...

Zeus posted...

Is that a typo or a reference I'm not getting?

Are you not aware that there are small schools in this country?

Are you not aware that small communities usually pool their students together into a single high school rather than have several abysmally tiny schools? And, while there are certainly small high schools out there, 100 students doesn't seem weirdly low to you? I mean, the senior class must have only been 15-20 students.

There are some areas out there like that. Especially if there are no other towns close. Or close enough for people to send their kids to those other schools...

Also, I do understand that. When I switched to public schools from a private school, it was very different..
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Zeus posted...

Are you not aware that small communities usually pool their students together into a single high school rather than have several abysmally tiny schools? And, while there are certainly small high schools out there, 100 students doesn't seem weirdly low to you? I mean, the senior class must have only been 15-20 students.

Uhhhhhhhhh, no. I graduated with a class of 440+ in VA. My dad graduated with a class of 8 in a small town in Oklahoma. Turns out, if it's rural it might not be worth the travel time to pool the schools. At your advanced age you should know that by now.
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Fairly crowded I suppose. About 30 people per class. Around 4 classes per year group with 5 year groups. The school has since been pulled own, rebuilt and been merged with another so it's of course got even bigger now.
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No it wasnt. Our campus was fairly large in proportion to the number of students.
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Is that a typo or a reference I'm not getting?

Neither
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Nah, my town is tiny. Population around 1,000. Classes were small.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Fairly crowded I suppose. About 30 people per class. Around 4 classes per year group with 5 year groups. The school has since been pulled own, rebuilt and been merged with another so it's of course got even bigger now.

But if it's bigger, maybe they have more room now?

jramirez23 posted...

No it wasnt. Our campus was fairly large in proportion to the number of students.

A lot of space is good...

KogaSteelfang posted...

Nah, my town is tiny. Population around 1,000. Classes were small.

How small?
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Nope. My school went from Pre K to 12th in one but was in my little village here and probably a tad oversized for the student count. If i remember right my senior year we had less than 50 people in HS.
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I went to Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, CA, which had over 4000 students at the time. Not enough normal desks for some students in a few classes, lockers in the hallways that hadn't been used for many years due to there not being enough for each student, etc.
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LinkPizza posted...

How small?

I don't remember the exact number, and once we entered high school several other classes combined into our school. After combining, I think my class went from about 20ish to maybe mud 30's.
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TheFalseDeity posted...

Nope. My school went from Pre K to 12th in one but was in my little village here and probably a tad oversized for the student count. If i remember right my senior year we had less than 50 people in HS.

Oh, boy. That is small... lots of people had small schools here. More than I thought, at least...

AbsoluteDenial posted...

I went to Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, CA, which had over 4000 students at the time. Not enough normal desks for some students in a few classes, lockers in the hallways that hadn't been used for many years due to there not being enough for each student, etc.

Jeez... That was definitely overcrowded...

KogaSteelfang posted...

LinkPizza posted...

How small?

I don't remember the exact number, and once we entered high school several other classes combined into our school. After combining, I think my class went from about 20ish to maybe mud 30's.

I was always use to bigger classes. I don't know how it would have been to have way less people...
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Cacciato posted...

Zeus posted...

Are you not aware that small communities usually pool their students together into a single high school rather than have several abysmally tiny schools? And, while there are certainly small high schools out there, 100 students doesn't seem weirdly low to you? I mean, the senior class must have only been 15-20 students.

Uhhhhhhhhh, no. I graduated with a class of 440+ in VA. My dad graduated with a class of 8 in a small town in Oklahoma. Turns out, if it's rural it might not be worth the travel time to pool the schools. At your advanced age you should know that by now.

While I lived in quite a few different places growing up (5 states, 3 countries), I guess none of them were anywhere close to being as podunk or backwoods as your dad's little town of Mayberry.

In this part of the country, even the towns where you can't see from one house to the next house (which is pretty damn rural) you still have consolidated districts. Granted, New England states have more stringent educational requirements so you could probably get away with that one room schoolhouse stuff in Oklahoma. After all, Oklahoma's education system is ranked 46th in the nation (but hey, at least it's beating Mississippi. That's something, right?)

https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/quality-counts-2018-state-grades/highlight-reports/2018/01/17/oklahoma.html
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Lol. Ok? The point is you were wrong. But of course you had to overreact to it.
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About eight or nine years ago the county school district (doesn't serve every school in the county, just the smallest ones) went from seven different schools to just four. Six of them combined into three and one was able to remain on it's own. They all have 9-12 enrollments between 83-167. None of them can really consolidate with any of the remaining schools in the district because there just isn't anything closer. The two closest schools in that district are at least a half hour apart from each other.
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Cacciato posted...

Lol. Ok? The point is you were wrong. But of course you had to overreact to it.

Wrong to ask for a clarification about something that could easily have been a typo or reference? -_- And, for a guy who reacted so strongly to my query, it's strange to hear you talk about overreactions.
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