Large high schools

[swissmiss04]

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

My class was around 325 or so.

[Txsurfinwaves]

My graduating HS class was 945.

[dzandiloo]

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.

[Glitter650]

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...

[SiKeS]

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

[damasa]

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

[ZTAngel]

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.

[swissmiss04]

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

[Rollergirl2001]

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

[tunatartare]

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

[ajuhdg]

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

[Rudey]

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

[AGDee]

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

[ZTAngel]

Originally posted by swissmiss04
To all you w/ classes of 700 or more: were you at all close w/ your classmates or is that just impossible???

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.

[Honeykiss1974]

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