My graduating class alone was 497 students, and that was the least amount of students per grade. It was a NYC public high school. Loved every minute and I miss those innocent days!
I went to 4 different high schools. I don’t know how many they had. Probably at least 3 of them had more than 500, because one was a new school, and the other had 3 stories.
1965, my graduating class of Seniors was 650, 10th-11th grades added another 700+ each.
And no guards, fences, cameras, key-cards or other “protections”. In the middle of suburbia and over 12 miles from home.
My school had roughly 1500 kids at the time, 300+ per class. And we had 3 high schools. Somewhere around 4,000 kids in high school at a time and about 900-1,000 graduated per year.
I liked it, definitely a different experience though. About as diverse of a school you could possibly get. 25% white, 25% black, 40% Hispanic with students from about 120 different countries.
My kids went to a much smaller school (1800) but similarly diverse. It was the IB magnet and many faculty sent their kids there. 40% black, 25% white, 10% Hispanic, 25% other — Asian, Indian, etc. all over.
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