16. We were the last class to graduate before schools consolidated.
How big was your HS graduating class?
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My freshman year we had ~1000 kids in my school in NoVa. My senior year I graduated with about 52 from a school on our base in Tx.
95ish. I think the largest ever was somewhere around 110, and now it's probably back down to the sixties.
We had a lot of Mexican kids drop out and several students leave when gateway was downsizing and bought out.
We had a customer that bragged that he slept with half the women in his class.......and he married her.
643. John I Leonard HS in WPB in 1978. Our school was large enough that double sessions were necessary. Juniors and Seniors went in the morning 7am-12:00. Freshmen and Sophomores went in the afternoon 12:30-5:30.
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Chicago area public school.
Pretty sure there are more than twice as many students there now compared to then.
Chicago area public school.
Pretty sure there are more than twice as many students there now compared to then.
‘98 Warrior grad here. The stories I have, let me tell you. I’m glad cell phones weren’t around. What about you?
My Junior year there was 9 of us. That school closed so I had to go to school in the town down the road. There was 20 of us there.
My son graduated from Waukee in 21' with 730 plus kids. That was the last class before they went to two high schools. I always found it interesting to look through the trophy cases and see the school class from the 80's to the 90's to when they started blowing up in the mid 2000's. I had 50 in mine and that was two towns. Could never quite get my head around that school size.
We lost several early - all car crashes. Then we went about twenty years without any. Now we’re dying all the time. Two of my closest friends have passed away from heart attacks.
450/1975
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Class of 1967.
Kennedy opened in 68 so cut the class in half after that.
Class of 1967.
Kennedy opened in 68 so cut the class in half after that.
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My Junior year we had 17.
Consolidated my Senior year and graduated with 53. That would be the largest class in school history. Now consolidated with another 3 schools.
4 of the 17 in my Junior class year have passed away.
My dad had 20 in his class and didn't lose a classmate for 56 years.
My wife's brother is a cattle rancher in Montana. We have been to three graduations there. 2,4, and 5 kids in each graduation class. School started a 6 man football team last year.
I can’t imagine being in such small schools. I’ve never even considered what that’s like.
I run across people in town I never knew I graduated with- which is also wild.
I run across people in town I never knew I graduated with- which is also wild.
Up until my SR. year I knew every classmates birthday. 17 kids, 17 two parent families.
Like officially sanctioned bonfires? No. My Fr. year was the first year of consolidation, so I was pretty unaware of what happened before that--some good bonfires, maybe?
79 in 98, which was a record. Had 84 in our freshman class but had some dropouts.
64, I believe.
We all got along decent enough at least by our senior year. Sure, there were groups within our class who hung out together more than others, but we definitely weren't complete strangers.
We all got along decent enough at least by our senior year. Sure, there were groups within our class who hung out together more than others, but we definitely weren't complete strangers.
My class was 45 that graduated. Started senior year with 55.
2 have passed.
One girl had her third child as a senior on her 18th birthday. She is married and all of her kids turned out well she and is doing great.
I know CSB.
2 have passed.
One girl had her third child as a senior on her 18th birthday. She is married and all of her kids turned out well she and is doing great.
I know CSB.
Yes, they used to have huge(keep in mind I was less than 10) bonfires for homecoming in that grassy area behind the football field/swimming pool area. They probably stopped just before consolidating.
33 with 30 graduating. 1 has passed away, this past year, at 53.
My dad graduated from a class of 7 in 1940. He always bragged he graduated in the top 10 of his class.
People that know the exact number amaze me. That's paying attention to detail.
around 160 to 170 in 1993 at CR Prairie.
around 160 to 170 in 1993 at CR Prairie.
We have had multiple people die, car, od, Ect.
This is the craziest one:
iowacoldcases.org
He was executed in broad daylight with two pistols to the back of his head as they made him kneel.
"Nobody knows anything about it"
This is the craziest one:
Cyrus Hicks
Cyrus James "C.J." Hicks, 24, was shot in the head and killed on March 3, 2011, outside a Des Moines apartment complex near 29th Street and Boston Avenue.
He was executed in broad daylight with two pistols to the back of his head as they made him kneel.
"Nobody knows anything about it"
147 in 1981 and I believe it’s still the biggest graduating class ever for Osage. The average class size there is now 74.
My wife’s high school now has an average class size of 29, a parochial school in a bigger town than Osage. Rural Iowa high schools are facing a bit of a sustainability crisis IMO.
My wife’s high school now has an average class size of 29, a parochial school in a bigger town than Osage. Rural Iowa high schools are facing a bit of a sustainability crisis IMO.
74, '92 2 passed away shortly after college. Sucks everyone has started to lose parents the past few years.
9-11 grades about 550 in the class, but then moved and there was 30 to start the year and 25 at graduation at a military base that was drawing down to close 2 years later.
Well it was after midnight not broad daylight, and he had stolen 3 guns from his grandmother the week before. When dealing with drug dealers and stolen guns in the middle of the night shit might go side ways. I grew up with this guy, he was a real winner.We have had multiple people die, car, od, Ect.
This is the craziest one:
Cyrus Hicks
Cyrus James "C.J." Hicks, 24, was shot in the head and killed on March 3, 2011, outside a Des Moines apartment complex near 29th Street and Boston Avenue.
He was executed in broad daylight with two pistols to the back of his head as they made him kneel.
"Nobody knows anything about it"
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/l...cide/526-86f087e0-a934-4972-9791-c4df7df1d3eb
