Large high schools

[sueali]

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.

[dzandiloo]

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???

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!

[Cardinal026]

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!

[honeychile]

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!

[deadbear80]

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....

[deadbear80]

Originally posted by 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

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.

[damasa]

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"?

[AznSAE]

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

[Txsurfinwaves]

Originally posted by 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.

aj

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.

[DigitalAngel126]

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.

[RedRoseSAI]

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

[sigtau305]

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

[sairose]

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

[WCUgirl]

Originally posted by DigitalAngel126
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.

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

[AUDeltaGam]

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