How rural was your High School?

[ltljohn]

Mine was small but not this rural. This one is about half way between Allentown and Harrisburg PA

 

http://wfmz.com/view/?id=275101

[David]

Mine was 180 kids across all four grades.

[Quinn]

We only had sex ed classes on Tuesdays and thursdays because they needed the cars for driver ed the other three days.

 

 

[Huzband]

We only had sex ed classes on Tuesdays and thursdays because they needed the cars for driver ed the other three days.

 

 

[ericfoerster]

I went to High School one year in South Texas. The elementary school had a parking lot for the students. It usually had 10-15 cars and a few tractors in the lot. I used to see 5th and 6th graders driving home for lunch.

 

Sex ed was kinda like OJT!

[Slyder_Steve]

Mine was small high school in So Cal--1,200 in my graduating class

[Huzband]

I went to High School one year in South Texas.

 

High school in Texas is only one year?!?

 

That explains a lot about Whip.

 

Oh, wait. He's from Michigan.

 

Well, there's still Billy.

[Bullett]

Mine was suburban and pretty large for its time (a couple of thousand students or so), we did have a "Rodeo Club," but not "Future Farmers of America."

[skinny_tom (aka boney)]

Not very.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%22william+howard+taft+high+school%22&sll=38.279477,-122.464431&sspn=1.336753,2.208252&ie=UTF8&ll=34.168742,-118.573079&spn=0.011007,0.017252&t=h&z=16

 

Only 750 granduating seniors my year. But every single one of us was issued a ticket by officer J.T. Wells.

[frogger]

My class was 31 strong. Mabton High School home of the first case of Mad Cow Disease found in the U.S.

[ESokoloff]

Not very.

 

 

 

Same here.

Just down the street (freeway) from you Tom

Oh, & a decade or so earlier

[Gary in Aus]

I went to school in Coonamble many years ago , matriculated in 1973.

 

From Kindergarten through to 6th Class {Primary} and from 1st year to 4th year {Secondary} the entire school population was 96 students and 8 nuns.

 

5th and 6th year required either going to boarding school or attending the public school.

 

My 6th Year class {Secondary}{ required for entry into university} consisted of 2 boys and 7 girls

[lawnchairboy]

metro atlanta, 1984, 350+ in my graduating class.

[Lynn]

My graduating class was about 80. We had one paved road in town when I lived there - and it was the highway. The next town out graduated about 30. And the one beyond that graduated 4 my senior year.

 

It has certainly grown since then. More and more people have moved out there and are commuting to town to work these days - it has become a real bedroom community. My high school was the new high school when I was a freshman. It is now the middle school and there is a (relatively) huge new high school nearby. There are even three or four paved road and a couple of stop lights these days!

 

 

 

[Tank]

Rural foothills of L.A. . Pasadena High School......... 1968

 

Interesting thought. There was a shooting range for the R.O.T.C. on campus. As a cadet we were issued 22 cal. target rifles. I wonder how that flies in todays inviroment

[Joel]

Millbrook HS in Raleigh, NC, had about 375 seniors in 1981, so not very rural. But we weren't far from it. A town nearby had a ZIP code of E-I-E-I-O.

 

 

Sorry, couldn't resist that last part. Popped up in my iGoogle today, courtesy of Martin Mull.

[Agent_Orange]

The dean would know which beach we would be surfing at by the size of the waves and who was not in class.

[Shaman97]

Good 'ole Fox Lane. Bedford NY. Where many of the kids wore fashionably torn blue jeans in order to show off their February Bermuda tans.

At the time, it was considered rural. Now, it'd be called suburban.

 

"When I think back...it's a wonder I can think at all..."

[Gregori]

I'll bet she was wondering the same thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cHg6ZAOTU

 

[rob1100r]

Where I live in NJ used to be a little like that, then all the 'Easterners' moved here Absolute shame...

[Highway41]

Very. There were three counties in GA that were smaller. Graduating class numbered about 35.

Bill

[Husker Red]

Wow, I might be in the lead here with about 23 kids in my graduating class! We were one of the biggest classes in school at the time.

 

I liked the small class size. It sure taught you to get along with each other. Even if we would get into a fist fight one night the next day we'd have to be together in class, lunch, sports, etc... Life-long friendships were formed.

[Spyder]

You would think that having spent six years in high school I would remember, but I can't.

[GregB]

Mine was small high school in So Cal--1,200 in my graduating class

Mine was a SMALL high school in So Cal, 42 in my graduating class.

 

[BFish]

our milk didn't come in cartons...here is a pic of our dispenser. timing was everything.

 

[Albert]

We bounced around a bit when I was a kid but the smallest school I attended was in rural Ontario. The town had one grade school and each grade had one clase (grades 1 - 8). The town also had the district high school but since kids had to come from farms and other small towns around the area with no HS, it was actually fairly big. When I moved back to the states I finished HS in a pretty big one (700+ graduates).

[smkymtntaco]

There were 52 in my graduating class.

 

My senior year, I took my automatic shotgun to school everyday in the fall. I left it in the Principal's office. After school, the Principal, my social studies teacher, and I would go behind the school to the 160 acre corn field and shoot doves till we had our limit, then go home for supper. Do it all again the next day!

 

Is that rural enough?

[BFish]

There were 52 in my graduating class.

 

My senior year, I took my automatic shotgun to school everyday in the fall. I left it in the Principal's office. After school, the Principal, my social studies teacher, and I would go behind the school to the 160 acre corn field and shoot doves till we had our limit, then go home for supper. Do it all again the next day!

 

Is that rural enough?

 

interestingly, a buddy and i kept our shotguns in my car. after football practice, with ankles still taped, we either went goose or pheasant hunting for an hour. the good 'ol days for sure.

[jclevenger]

23 in my graduating class. Wasn't uncommon at all to have more snowmobiles than cars in the parking lot! We didn't cancel classes for much of anything either... more than once our school bus was escorted by a snow plow, I think my kids had close to 10 snow days this year!!