by number of total students?
The largest high school in the US, according to this chart from US News, is Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois at 4,483. The largest high school in the world is apparently Rizal High School in Pasig City, Manila, the Philippines at over 20,000.
The smallest high school in the US, according to US News, is Bridgewater High School in Bridgewater, South Dakota at just 47.
What was your high school’s enrollment, either at the time or now?
My son-in-law was the valedictorian of his HS class of 2 graduates.
I find that hard to believe. Wiki lists Skyline High School in Dallas TX as having an enrollment of over 5k: I am pretty sure it’s actually a little under that right now, but it’s not as low as 4500. I’ve never heard anyone suggest it’s the biggest high school in the country or even the state. So if I can think of a counter example off the top of my head 15 minutes after the OP is posted, I wonder how many others there are.
ETA: looking at your link, it appears that Stevenson is the largest enrollment school among the schools they rank as top in the nation.
Wiki says 950-1000, sounds about right.
Hmm. Hard to know how to answer. The enrollment in my school the year I graduated was just under 600, but in 6 grades (7-12)
A little under 1,200 if I remember correctly and checking wikipedia that appears to be close to current enrollment, so I probably do. Pretty middle-of-the-road in both size and academics. Very ethnically diverse, somewhat economically diverse as well.
About 1,200, according to Wikipedia. I graduated in 2000, and I think it was a little smaller then – just under a thousand?
Yeah I’m not sure entirely what that list represents or when it was from. Forgive any inaccuracies; it was 5 seconds worth of Google research.
According to this from the Washington Post, as of 2005 they have both Belmont High School in LA and Elizabeth High School in New Jersey at 5,299 for what that’s worth.
I went to a rural High School, which had 350 pupils, ranging from ages 11 to 17. Due to a reduction in many local workplaces since then, the same school now has only half that number, around 150 pupils.
Yes it’s important to remember that “high school” can encompass different ranges of grades. My school system didn’t have middle school / jr high, so elementary schools were 1-7, high school 8-12. So whether that enrollment is for 3 grades, or 4 or 5 or more can really skew the intended purpose of this poll.
When I graduated, there was only one high school in my town. My graduating class was over 1000 people. So I’m guessing somewhere around 3500 for total enrollment, grades 10-12.
My graduating class was 144. At that time high school included 10th, 11th, and 12th grades only. Therefore I am guessing the total enrollment was above 500. It’s just a wild guess.
I was graduated from HS in 1944, so it’s really ancient history. LOL
About 1500 kids, grades 9-12.
My graduating class was 197 so I went with the 750-1000 range. But we only had grades 10-12. Junior high was 7-9 grades.
I can’t imagine going to a High school with 4000-5000 kids.
I went to a pretty large high school (2700+) and at the time the population was almost exactly evenly distributed among white, black, Asian and Hispanic students, so there was a very high degree of self-segregation, and even further segregated by 2 different magnet programs. For the most part everyone just hung out with who was in most of their classes. It kind of makes reunions a bit hit-or-miss or even downright awkward because of the high chance that you’ll only know just a few people.
Based on my memory that my graduating class was roughly 300 strong and that there were only three grades (10-12) at the school when I was there, I estimated 750-1000. I just checked their wiki page and found there were 800 or so there in those days. They added 9th grade recently so the odds are good that it’s over 1000 by now.
Pushing for an estimate, I’d hazard that I knew the names of fewer than 100 at the time and probably would have trouble naming 50 now.
My graduating class had 41 kids in it, so everyone knew each other. That was about average, so there were approximately 300 kids in the highschool wing of the building, which housed grades 7-12. We also shared the lunchroom, library, and gyms with the elementary school, so probably about 700 students total in the building. Tiny school, and you knew everyone in your class and the classes above and below you.
I actually did go to multiple high schools of greatly varying size, but I voted for “101-200” because the smaller school was where I spent most of my high school career and was the school that I graduated from. I spent 3/4 of my freshman year at a large high school of around 2,000 students, but transferred to an alternative program with about 150 students.
I was on the yearbook staff my sophomore year, and we were just over 800 students then IIRC. I’m almost certain by the time I graduated, it had dropped below 750. That summer a rezoning went into effect, and so in three months, they went from a school that was barely hanging on to its AA status to a bursting-at-the-seams AAAA.
My high school had 4500-5000 students at the time (late '80s), but I think it has since dropped to under 4000. If I remember the story correctly, the school was built to be a community college in the '70s, but was changed for some reason. It was one of eleven high schools in the district, and the rest of them were “normal” size, i.e. much smaller than mine.