How many students were/are in your high school graduating class??

Here's a question I think might be interesting...

At the time, we were the largest graduating class in the history of the school.

Look down.
:D

We were the smallest graduating class ever at my school.

We started with 440 as freshmen. :scared:

In the 1970's we had over 2,500 students total. Now I think it might be less than 1,400.

just our class got smaller.
The 2 years around us were over 400 graduating.

A far cry from the class of 1977, who had over 650 in theirs.

i think when i graduated, i was #17 in my cLass. i'm wicked smaht.

:P

:mad:

Be :scared:

:grr:

started with 127 freshman year

I have no idea why I even remember that. :shrug:

I went to an all-boys academy at which is was one of 212. The all-girls sister school graduated another 220. So, it could be debated whether my graduating class was 212 or 432.
The Professor

Was there a single headmaster/ principal for both schools?
Did someone attend both graduations as the top dog?

Actually, I guess I'm just asking questions. :shrug:

I say Nay!

:crazy:

So, i think we agree. Yes there were two validicatorians, etc. Different principals. (We didn't have headmasters. It wasn't THAT hoi polloi!)

As to your question about attending the grads, i don't know. I didn't go. I took a social work/religion class my senior year, but everything else was taken at a local university. I was not actually part of the school that last year, and took 8 college classes before the state would officially recognize my completion of high school. (Go figure.) When i got my diploma in the mail from the HS, i was already a college sophomore. So, since i wasn't there, i don't know how much overlap in faculty there was.

We did, however, in junior and senior level classes, have people moving to one another's school for certain classes. In my junior year, my first class was at the girls' high school, which was convenient, since it was about a quarter of the distance from my house. I could walk, and then take the city bus from there to my school. (Unless my dad let me have his work car for the day.)
The Professor

I went to a public high school in southern Oregon. Not much to do but go to the beach and let nature take its course...

At the time I graduted at least. I'm not sure it still holds that distinction.

My graduating class was around 1,200. The school is in Mass

I remember some of my friends up in Maine got t-shirts with the names of everyone in their graduating class printed on the back. That would never work for my high school class. ;)

I still can't imagine that small of a class.

Impresses the hell out of potential employers for him to say he graduated third in his class.

We probably didn't have more than a dozen in my graduating class.

ahh, i miss northern wisconsin. :)

I was salutatorian... admittedly, that didn't take much where I went to school. :puke:

In the class of 1967. Near the height of the baby boom. Not all graduated though. Two years later a second high school was opened.

And we had 7 valedictorians. (No, I wasn't one of 'em.)

While there are some advantages to a small school, there are also disadvantages. It was public. There were no AP classes or honors track classes with the exception of an advanced math class. Less than 25% went on to a 4 year college.