I saw where the government has been trumpeting rising grad rates, but they grossly inflate the numbers of students who leave the system for home schooling to remove them from the calculations.
Sweet Jesus. Only schools in the hood around here are even close to that. I went to a good public HS outside Atlanta, and probably 4 kids dropped out from 450.
We had an above average AP program and plenty of kids that went to great schools. But there was basically two schools within one. And that other school was one of the worst scoring bunches in the state on the standardized test stuff.
Most of the people that started in my graduating class as freshmen graduated as seniors, but I was in The Woodlands, which is a bit of an outlier in Texas.
Theres like 15 new districts like that since you've been there probably. Insane money going into some of these areas, and places like the woodlands have only gotten more high profile.
I graduated with 38 kids. We were the biggest class in our school when we were seniors. It was awesome.
Yeah, every time I go back to visit (going again in a few weeks for my youngest brother's high school graduation) it's like going to a brand-new city. Completely different place from where I went to high school.
haha yeah. I guess it was only a matter of time before someone built a bigger one. I am assuming that its for their whole district to share though. Can't believe they would pay 63 mil for 12,000 seats tho. 6000 less than our spot for more money. Shit must be deluxe
And my high school class started with ~630 and graduated 254. Southside of Tallahassee... IB School... IB Class went from like 70 to 63 (but none dropped out, just transferred schools)
I can't imagine having 1300 people in my class or the size of the school that can house 3 or 4 grades that size
Hoover used to be like twice that until Spain Park was created. And they were competing against schools with classes of 300-500.
The schools I went to are now k-6 (elementary), 7-8 (junior high), 9 (freshman only, but on the same campus as high school), 10-12 (high school). Weird
I did some work at Gardendale this spring and they do something similar to this with their middle school (sixth in their own building, 7-8 in the main building). The reasoning was never really explained to me.
I believe new schools in my city can only be built for the size of the current student population plus like 10%. So if you have 1,000 students currently at your school, then you can build a school for 1,100. You can't build the school for expected growth or something like that because even though it's projected, it's uncertain. My schools used to be k-5, 6-9, 9-12. But the student population outgrew the capacity of the current schools so they built a freshman building and moved 6th graders back to a larger elementary school which was just built.
Y'all are making me sad. When I was in school, my town had 2 grade schools for K-5. Then 6-8 was at the junior high and 9-12 was at the high school. 4 total buildings. Now they go K-6 in one building and 7-12 in the other. Rural America is dying.
Haven't heard of many schools that still include 6th grade in elementary. And two grades in a middle school seems almost pointless.
My sisters high school had certain classes in trailers because they didn't have enough room in the building. Always thought that was weird.
Super common in Florida (and other areas of massive population growth) because building size can't keep up with demographic shifts.
All the Catholic schools we went to were K-8, 9-12. Went to K,1,&2 at at K-12 school in bumfuck, Arkansas, though.