Large high schools
 

So there's a thread on small high schools...who graduated from a large high school?

My class was around 325 or so.

My graduating HS class was 945.

I thought 325 was a small class...LOL. Our marching band had approx. 371 students 9th-12th grade.

My HS Alma Mater, Duncanville HS, Duncanville, TX had about 3,000 students total when I graduated in 1988. 771 give or take a few in the graduating class....I think the classes have grown since then, but I don't know...my little brother is a junior, so I'll have to ask him.

My graduating class was like 320 or so... about 1800 students in all when I went there I think it's just over 2000 now...

Close to 1000... School only had grades 10-12.. So about 3000 total in 3 grades..
Largest HS in missouri, one of the largest in the nation.. sucks when the hallways are so narrow

My graduating class was around 900 or so and we had over 3,000 students in the school at that time.

My graduating class had 900 students. There were over 3,000 students total at my high school. I would say that many, if not all, high schools in Broward County, Florida are around this number.

To all you w/ classes of 700 or more: were you at all close w/ your classmates or is that just impossible???

In '01, we had over 400 students graduate. We have a school population of 2,000. (9th-12th grade)

Wow, and I thought my high school was big. My graduating class was 656, I believe.

I'm from another big North Texas school. We had 963 when I graduated in 1995...HS is only 11-12 in one building...so it wasn't that crowded. Our school is the size of an average Community College. My brother graduated in 1998, and he had almost 1300. They just built another HS in our city (3 total 11-12 grades). This has alleviated some of the numbers, but it's a rapldly growing area.

To answer swissmiss...you may not have been 'close' per se, but I pretty much knew who everyone was. One thing that stands out as a positive of large schools...in my instance anyway...was that with so many people, the instance of cliques is so much smaller. There were just TOO many people to have a 'popular' group and the like. I loved high school!

aj

We had probably around 1200 or so in each class - I wouldn't remember since I was busy doing the crack rock with the janitors in the basement a lot.

-Rudey

Around 700 in my graduating class. My brother (3 years ahead of me) had over 1000 in his. We were considered the first small class as the baby boom officially ended one year before my class was born. (The pill was invented that year!)

No, you weren't close to everybody, there were whole groups of people you never met or didn't know. Somehow, more people knew me than I knew! Just the other day (20 years later) someone from high school stopped me, asked me if I was "blah blah" and said they went to high school with me. She didn't look familiar and the name wasn't familiar. I basically knew the college bound people because they were in all my college prep/AP classes.

Dee

It's impossible to be close to everyone in a graduating class of over 900. During graduation, there were people's names called to walk across the stage that I had never heard. I was in the Honors & AP program so I knew everyone in those classes. We all had the same classes from freshman year through senior year so we became close with each other. The only time I would meet students outside of the Honors & AP program was when I would be in my elective classes.
It prepared me for college, though. I was use to a big school so coming to college was not a big deal. I had sorority sisters that graduated from small schools who were completely overwhelmed by the size of some of their lecture classes. It really didn't phase me since I was use to be a little fish in a big pond. :)

My graduating class had about 430 students. The total population for the school was around 2,500 or so.

My graduating class was around 700 or so. The school had about 3200 people when I left. Since then they hav built 3 new high schools in the area. Vegas is growing so much they build at least 2 high schools a year.

In a word: No. Not in my personal experience. We were very cliquey & rarely strayed from our "groups." I went to school in the same district from k-12, and sat next to a guy at graduation who I had never met-and he said he had been in the school district since junior high!

I graduated in a class of about 800 kids, and while you didn't know everyone, I recognized most people. The worst part about this was the 6 hour graduation ceremony. It probably wasn't that long but it felt like forever! :rolleyes:

I graduated with slightly over 700 people.

As for closeness, how close do you really need to be to everyone in your class? I was close with those in the AP/Prep classes, and the people I had known from grade school, but was still a "Class Leader". And yeah, graduation day, I heard names I had NEVER heard before!

My graduating class supposedly had 686...but only 660 of us got diplomas when I did in '98. For a while, we were considered the largest class to come through in a long time...until the class of 2000 showed up. When I graduated, my high school had 2763 students--now it's over 3100 and I didn't graduate that long ago! I didn't necessarily know everyone in my class--but I had at least 'heard' of 90% of them. My middle school graduating class had about 280; so that was about a 1/3 of my high school class. Plus I had friends at other middle schools, and I was a 2 sport athlete, so that helped.
Ironically though, the guy I sat next to at graduation I had never heard of or seen in my life! That was kind of weird....

Did you go to Hickman???? I have friends who went there and they claim it's the largest. But they've told me it's more like 2500...so it can't really be the largest in the nation. In Illinois alone, there are 10 high schools at least that have well over 3000--a couple over 4000.

I knew quite a few people that I graduated with but I would call them "associates" instead of friends. I had a few different groups of friends because I was involved in a lot of things in HS but I only had one "core group" that I hung around with on a regular basis.

Like ZTAngel said, there were people at my graduation where I'd be like "who the heck is that"?

i graduated with about 325 people. i remember when we were freshmans we had like 500 people.

I think the TX Schools in large cities tend to be big..however, i actually graduated from a HS in Houston...remember, EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas!:)

I had alot of friends, but it tends to be the same people in all of your classes, over and over...so you have lots of associates too. You make tons of new friends and i always loved being in a big HS.

I always thought my high school was somewhat large, but not any more...I graduated with 500-something and total population of the school was right around 2000.

I think there were about 650 in my class...2800 in the school.

I graduated in a class of 540. My school was about close to 2,200.

Wow, I graduated with 28, so I can't even imagine some of these huge high schools! :eek: I knew everyone from 7th-12th grade and many of the elementary schools as well.

Agreed! My freshman class started out around 575, but graduated about 435. We had slightly over 2000 (maybe about 2200?) in my hs.

I think there were a little under 600 people in my graduating class.

I think at the time of graduation my high school was considered the largest west of the Mississippi at about 5,500 or so. I think my graduating class was about 1,400 or so. Since then they have opened a new high school so it has only 3,000 students.

Yupp Hickman... You're right, it isn't the largest in the nation... But I've heard many times that it is the largest in Missouri and in either the top 5 or 10 largest in the nation... I'm not really sure on the facts. I just know its extremely overcrowded and that we're the only school in the nation with a naked baby (kewpie) as a mascott.. :( We've overcome that though... Are the schools with 3000 and 4000 students out of 3 grades like hickman is? we only have grades 10-12.

When did your friends go to Hickman? If it was in the last 4 years, its quite possible that I know them too! :D

when my mom graduated from hs in philadelphia, her class had 3,000 . i kid you not. i asked her about yearbooks and she said that only seniors were in the yearbook

We had about 500 in a school with 2500 students. I knew OF almost all of them, but only KNEW about 50 of them, and was close friends with only 3 of them. I had more friends who were freshman, sophomores, and juniors when I was a senior. :confused:

I have graduated from a large school. There were over 400 graduates in 2001. There were 2,000 students at my high school.

My high school was the second largest in the area & my graduating class was close to 400! We had about 1800 students total.

graduating high school class was 789 when i graduated...now it will be over 1000 for both of my younger brothers!

Graduating class in HS was less than 400. Thank goodness for that b/c it made the graduation ceremony short & sweet unlike my sisters with almost 1000 seniors graduating on a hot day. :eek:

I believe my graduating class in 1994 had approximately 310 students. We had about 1200 kids at my school.