How many were in your high school graduating class?

[Orrex]

Mine had 180, if memory serves.

[Ptah]

1. About 100, in 1969

[Populist_Prole]

2. 200-250 thereabouts

High school had 1100 kids total, grades 9-12. Attendance was from several small towns the small town in the NYC exurbs the school was in.

[geardaddy]

3. About 450

in Minneapolis in 1983.

[LiberalEsto]

4. A little more than 180, in 1969 nt

[CBGLuthier]

5. 700+, but I was not there.

I went to a three grade High School with 2,300 students. The year after I would have graduated they finished building a new High School.

Not a small town but an independent school district within a big city. Putnam City Schools. There is no Putnam City, this was on the edge of Oklahoma City. The truth is they became very popular when busing came into the OKC schools. Since they only had two HS and the supporting elementary and junior high schools were in an area at the time predominantly white there was no busing if you lived in their boundaries. Out of the 2300 kids in our HS, I kid you not, only three were black.

We moved into their area from Ohio. I hate to admit it but I am sure my parents picked the area because of its "exclusivity."

Now their area is quite demographically diverse and they are better for it.

[pokerfan]

6. 40

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. 44 or so I think for me.

[raptor_rider]

7. Mine was around 420

Good number, right???

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. indeed

[hunter]

8. Somewhere over 600.

The school was hideously overcrowded, designed for half as many students, so they solved the problem by having 11 daily periods which lasted from dawn to dusk in the winter.

Eventually a new high school was built, but until then my high school was a Lord of the Flies zoo while I attended, so I quit.

[femmocrat]

9. Around 1000.

It was at the height of the post-war baby boom.

[LaurenG]

10. 800 in mine and

my husband graduated with 36 others.

[Kali]

11. 700

my high school was bigger than a lot of colleges

[Ron Obvious]

13. Over 500

All their names are on a T-shirt I have, which sadly, must have shrunk in the wash or something because it no longer fits.

[orleans]

24. LOL (so funny...) n/t

[NewJeffCT]

14. Somewhere a bit under 100

back in the mid 80s. I think a few kids ended up dropping out, so it was like 89, but I'm not 100% sure.

[Worried senior]

15. If I remember correctly

there were about 50 of us.

[grasswire]

16. 600 nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. 675.

[Chan790]

18. 43.

It's nice in the sense that we've pretty much all remained close post-graduation. Of the 43, I am Facebook friends with about 30 of them.

[fifthoffive]

19. How many people were in your high school graduating class?

Mine had 669 in 1973.

[Angleae]

20. About 1000

Fairly typical for that school from what I understand.

[mokawanis]

21. 96

It was a small rural high school and it sucked. The teachers were incompetent and vindictive. One of them got mad at me for going through the assignments too quickly and dropped my grade from an A to a B.

[elleng]

22. 300

[Archae]

23. 79 in 1978.

Small town dominated by long-time resident families.

I was so happy to get the hell out of that school, and I haven't been to any of the class reunions.

[hamsterjill]

36. Same year, about the same class size.

Same sentiment, too. Left the day after graduation.

[OriginalGeek]

25. I graduated in the top 10 of my class

of 17.


All four years of HS the same core group was there and we never went much more than a kid or two up or down.


The entire school, K-12 may have had 200 kids. The church and school went under in the late 80s.

[mnhtnbb]

26. About 350 in 1969. I lost my yearbook in a house fire.

[tabbycat31]

27. 96 (1998)

And I would not send my worst enemy to my high school.

[HubertHeaver]

29. We had 110 graduate. I think we had 120 or so in the class, max.

That was in 1967.

[pinboy3niner]

30. We had more than 1,000 just in the Summer '66 class

The W '66 class had another 250 or so. That was at one of the two largest high schools in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. Goldarned Boomers!

[lamp_shade]

31. 32 in Class of '64 - Catholic school.

[hobbit709]

32. 414 in 1968. By 1971 there were 395 left.

[OrwellwasRight]

52. That's actually an amazing graduation rate.

Well above 90%. Most high schools would kill for a rate that high.

[hobbit709]

53. 395 left alive by 1971.

[pinboy3niner]

54. I know what you mean

R.I.P. to our classmates lost...

[OrwellwasRight]

55. Vietnam, you mean?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

33. About 1000

Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, NJ in June 1966.

My wife came from a small town in rural Wisconsin. Her 1968 graduating class had 35 in it.

[jmowreader]

34. 85

[dr.strangelove]

35. I think it was just under 1000

I can;t remember the exact number, but NYC schools used to have huge classes like that. I think they are smaller now.

[benld74]

37. 125

[a kennedy]

38. 209

Madison Edgewood High School....... And I just looked up an old friend...... Hope she writes back, haven't seen her since one year after high school 44 years ago.

[rurallib]

39. around 100 - nearly 50 years back so I can't remember exactly

1967 Catholic HS

[mysuzuki2]

40. I went to a really tough high school.

Nobody graduated.

[steve2470]

42. 540 in 1976 nt

[Rhiannon12866]

43. I believe there were 180 in my class, as well. All girls.

[AngryOldDem]

44. Mine was about 180 too, I think.

Small, compared to other schools in the area.

[Duppers]

45. 420

[Moondog]

46. 1,297. It was a big HS

in a booming area in the 'burbs of Miami.

On edit: I remember the number largely because some out of town relatives were so amazed by it. The school actually ran on shifts. 10th grade ran from 9:15 - 4:15; 11th from 8:15 - 3:15; and 12th from 7:15 - 2:15. and 1,297 seniors, including yours truly, graduated that particular year.

[LynneSin]

47. Yes I was in my high school graduating class

What do I win?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

48. I went to a big school, graduating class around 1100

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Dougherty_High_School

[bigwillq]

49. 120ish (nt)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

50. Mine and the couple years before and after were each around 1000

When I get asked if I remember so-and-so from high school, and they weren't even in my graduating class, I have to say "you've got to be kidding."

[OrwellwasRight]

51. About 600 when we started Freshman year

biggest class in the history of the school (of course that record would be surpassed every year I was at the school by the newest frosh class--and I'm not even a baby boomer), but only 486 made it to graduation. Terrible attrition rate.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

56. Don't know, don't care. Did not go to the ceremony. Turned down their Salutatorian offer.

Five High Schools in Five years. Can you spell Burnt the Fuck Out on it all.

[Broken_Hero]

57. about 136 nt

[mackerel]

58. 566