Smoken D Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 I know, I know, news media rarely get it right but I have a question. On this morning news covering the fires, a reporter stated that 265 schools were closed that served 100,000 students. I got to thinking about that since I deal in numbers, and with these numbers that comes out to 377 students per school. I sure hope that is not right. Even my H.S. back in the 60's would have 1,800 seniors graduating. That just does not sound like very many students per school. Even an average seems kinda low. My question is this info correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 NEVER-EVER trust what comes out of a 'reporters' mouth. Yes, many schools here are closed because of the fire. Has more to do with the pattern of smoke than anything else. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Slim SASS #24733 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Wow, you had over 7000 people in your High School? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Slim SASS #24733 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Also, Santa Rosa and the surrounding area is a bit rural in nature, so the schools are smaller than in the Bay Area where I live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 California has over 1000 public school districts, with enrollments ranging between 600,000+ and 5. Quite a range. https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/cb/ceflargesmalldist.asp LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 57 minutes ago, Smoken D said: Even my H.S. back in the 60's would have 1,800 seniors graduating. Where in the heck did you go to school? I just went and looked. My alma mater (which was a 3-year school when I graduated, but is now 4-year) has a TOTAL enrollment of 1350. Our "cross-town rival" has a total enrollment of 1188. And your school graduated 1800, fifty years ago?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 There are typically many more elementary schools than High Schools and they have smaller enrollments. The numbers are not unreasonable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorelei Longshot, SASS #44256 Life Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 My high school had 3,000+ in grades 10, 11, and 12. Graduated about 1,000+ each class. I graduated 50 years ago in 1967. My first post had incorrect number due to senior moment. It felt like there were 6,000 instead of 3,000+. Most elementary schools in Alief ISD (Houston, TX) have 800+ students. HISD and surrounding districts have 500 or fewer. One year the elementary I was teaching at had 5 or 6 temporary buildings with two classrooms each for a total of over 1,000 students. It was awful. Lunch started at 10:15 and ran until 1:30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 My graduating class had 116. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 53 minutes ago, Springfield Slim SASS #24733 said: Wow, you had over 7000 people in your High School? 35 minutes ago, Alpo said: Where in the heck did you go to school? I just went and looked. My alma mater (which was a 3-year school when I graduated, but is now 4-year) has a TOTAL enrollment of 1350. Our "cross-town rival" has a total enrollment of 1188. And your school graduated 1800, fifty years ago?? North Kansas City High School back in the early 60's to I believe 66 only had grades 11 & 12. It was the only H.S. in Clay/Platte counties of Kansas City, Missouri. In 66 they opened Oak Park H.S. and now I believe there are maybe 8 H.S. and some I believe just have 10/11/12 grade. I left the area over 17 years ago. The school was a very large campus similar to college. Had to walk a few blocks to another building. The Main campus had 4 separate buildings. There was also 5 lunch periods and a large dinning hall. Dagg Building was built in the very early 1900's that we used and a very interesting place. Not there any longer. I believe the school area it covered back then was around 250 square miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 http://highschoolguide.org/624/top-100-largest-high-schools-in-america/ Check out some of these class sizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Well my graduating class was 27. Following year it was about 34 which was a school record at the time. Looked online and the high school enrollment is 170 with 314 total K-12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Hombre Sin Nombre Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 My graduating class was 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Had I stayed in Creede, Colorado to graduate there would have been 5 of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 This is not a calculation that I would worry too much over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 And NEVER put a lot of cred on a number that ends in five zeroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootin' Shu Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Just had our 50th HS reunion this past spring and we had a total of 72 graduate. 12 are deceased, of the remaining 60 we were able to find 48 of those 48.. 31 still lived local. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 I graduated in ‘78. We had 78 Seniors graduate. I think that was pretty cool...I also thought it was cool that I had my diploma at 17 and I left home shortly after. Never went back. When my daughter graduated in Huntington Beach Ca she had over 250 in her graduation. The average number of high school students per school in CA is 427 in 9th through 12th grades per school. I got that number here: http://public-schools.startclass.com/l/9103/Marina-High-in-Huntington-Beach-California Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 7 hours ago, Shootin' Shu said: Just had our 50th HS reunion this past spring and we had a total of 72 graduate. 12 are deceased, of the remaining 60 we were able to find 48 of those 48.. 31 still lived local. That's the shocker for me.....when I get class newsletters, and see how many have died. Talk about feeling old.... LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shoer 27979 Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 On 12/7/2017 at 7:44 AM, Springfield Slim SASS #24733 said: Also, Santa Rosa and the surrounding area is a bit rural in nature, so the schools are smaller than in the Bay Area where I live. My late brother was a junior when Pine high School opened in 67. Pine high is in the area where all the fires were in Santa Rosa, I do not know if it was affected by the fires. Anyways the first graduating class from Pines was so small they recruited the junior class to join the senior class in the graduation ceremony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medicine Creek Johnny Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 I started in a 1 room school with 12 kids in 8 grades. Mine was a big class. There were 2 of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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