Do you think 2,000 students is overcrowded for a high school?

Question

just curious because at my school it seems too overcrowded with 2,000 students

Answer 1

If depends on how big the school is, if you have facilities and resources for all students, what your student-teacher ratio is, and if your classes are at or above maximum capacity (mandated by the state).

My high school was above 2000 students and I am sure that now they are past that. We had something like 600 or something in our graduating class. But, we were in a suburban setting in a city. Rural schools in districts that are growing too fast to keep up may have too many students than they can accomodate. Where we live, it is growing faster than they can build schools. They are putting caps on enrollment and people scramble to enroll their kids in preschool and elementary schools the first day enrollment starts so that they can get a slot before capacity is met and their student has to go to a school farther away. Even the middle and high schools are putting caps on enrollments and redrawing boundaries. The district just built a 2nd football stadium/athletic complex to accomodate all of the growth/new schools.

It all depends on where you are, what your facilities and resources are and what they can accomodate.

Answer 2

It really depends on the size of the school and the faculty. If your student to faculty ratio is 40-50:1 then that's too crowded. For me, the ideal is 25:1. But that's too much to hope for isn't it? I transferred on my last year of senior high from a private high school with a population of about 800. (about 6 block sections per year level - 1st -4th year high school/ average of 30 students per class) to a public school with a population of more than 3,000. It's a big school, with 2 gyms, a football field,volleyball, tennis and basketball courts, swimming pools, 2 auditoriums, a big quadrangle and 3 parking lots. But still with the funding of public school systems there isn't enough books for the regular classes. I'm usually in an AP or Honors class and I feel bad because we always have the newest books and we have individual copies. Some regular classes share old books.

The classrooms are a bit overcrowded too. Not to mention the chaos during lunch period. The long lines.

Oh and most teachers, with their teaching loads were barely able to remember their students' names. This is what I've heard from my friends in school. And then there are those poor counselors with about 500 students under their care. How do we get the recommendations we need for college from the school counselors when they barely able to recall our names? THat's why most students get the generic recommendations when what they most need is a personal recommendation to get into a competitive school. And the laboratories. 5 people sharing one flask, one burner...

Sorry. Done with my ranting. Loved the public school though. That's the only year I studied in one. And it may have been the best. Now I'm back in a private university with all the prissy rich kids. Haha.

Answer 3

NO, i don't think that 2,000 student are overcrowded because in high school their are more than 30 to40 class . In each class their are 15 to20 student in a each class so it i not overcrowded

Answer 4

Theodore Roosevelt High in Los Angeles has a 2006 enrollment of a whopping 5,032 students!

I went to a high school with around 2000 students. It seemed overcrowded but was fine. But a school with 2000+ plus lack of teachers, small building, student violence... ehh.... that get's a little iffy.

Answer 5

Depends on how many students attend. Divide the number of students per classroom into 1000. Like 25 into 1000.

Answer 6

No it's not. There are schools with up to 3000 commonly here and the world record is about 20000 students now imagen that.

Answer 7

it depends on how big the school is and how many teachers are. There's a lil over 1000 in my school and it seems like a lot b/c i'm in a pretty small town but its not really that bad cuz we have a pretty big school.

Answer 8

wow, you think 2,000 students is alot?
try having 2900 students in a high school meant for 2500

Answer 9

It depends on how big your school actually is.
my school aslo has over 2000 students, but the size is sufficient... about. it's not too crowded, but all the classes are packed.

Answer 10

Depends on the size of the school.. My school has 2100 something and its crampt. At the new high school the building to relieve that problem they could easily fit that many.