What rank did you graduate high school with?

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HumblePie

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That's it. I posted the link before I thought to the enrollment for 2004. I graduated in 96. It might not have been that big but I remember them saying that year they had over 2000 freshmen. You also have to factor in the Judson Learning Academy as well into the enrollment and some other stuff. It's wierd but huge. And yes, there's the Grey Campus and the Red Campus. Plus a ton of crap in between.

Please note, there are other districts with bigger students all spread out, like the NE ISD. It has a 50K student body spread over quite a few schools. Judson ISD has one highschool everyone in that area goes to, Judson. There are no alternatives.
 

tfinch2

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Originally posted by: HumblePie
That's it. I posted the link before I thought to the enrollment for 2004. I graduated in 96. It might not have been that big but I remember them saying that year they had over 2000 freshmen. You also have to factor in the Judson Learning Academy as well into the enrollment and some other stuff. It's wierd but huge. And yes, there's the Grey Campus and the Red Campus. Plus a ton of crap in between.

Please note, there are other districts with bigger students all spread out, like the NE ISD. It has a 50K student body spread over quite a few schools. Judson ISD has one highschool everyone in that area goes to, Judson. There are no alternatives.

I'm not doubting Judson is big, maybe 6k tops, but no way 8k-9k. Spectacular football, but we always owned you guys in basketball...
 

HumblePie

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Naw, I posted it before, had a link to the 2004 student body size. Actually the link had the size for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. At 2004 I think it broke 9K. Not sure how big it was when I was there last in 96. But I remember my graduating class STARTED out at around 1800 seniors. Out of that starting at the beginning of the year, 430 actually graduated.

As far as the basketball, football and stuff.. I was on the soccer team. Which also sucked badly.
 

HumblePie

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Ahh, that's only part of it though. It's wierd but when they post the enrollment you gota check all the tables and add them up. Because technically, you still have to add in the special learning center kids which is another 1,933 and the alternative body, and the DE's, the learning academy, and the military coming and going. It's a big cluster crap so it's actually much larger over all. However, if you were to count most kids on the just the grey and red campuses up, it's around 4K to 6K per year. It's wierd but when you do the actual head count for cash they get, it's always higher for the high school.

EDIT: I know cause I remember reading about it in my year book. They claimed 1800 starting seniors and my friends and I always wondered where that number came from. Because I certainly never saw that many seniors. We also wondered how the heck only 430 or so walked to get their diploma. 430 out of 1800 something is a big dropeven acounting for drop outs, people that didn't pass, people that got their GED instead and such.
 

SearchMaster

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I transferred before my senior year. My original HS had AP/Honors classes but no weighting, but the new HS had weighted GPAs (6=AP, 5=Honors). They refused to give me the weighted scores, so I started out around 19th I think. I aced my senior year and finished 6th :D. But that was a loooooooong time ago. I think there less than a half dozen AP tests available at that time.
 

Engineer

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5th out of 205. 4th if you count the tie for #1. Was #4 (3 with tie) but quit school after 7 semesters because I had enough credits to graduate early and the person behind me passed me in the last semester.
 

LongCoolMother

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20/523 unweighted
4/523 weighted

EDIT: Assuming i graduated this year with straight As (which i am almost positive i will)
 

brtspears2

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I never kept track of my rank. If I had to guess, top 20% of class. I got real lazy senior year.
 

Ionizer86

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Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: Safeway
Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: jumpr
My high school didn't keep track of ranks...the sheer number of 4.0 GPAs in my 700+ student class precluded such a possibility. I had a 3.81 though four years of HS, so I was probably somewhere in the top 25%.

My school officially said that they didn't do ranks, but if you ask the counselors they'd give it to you. The top 25% of my school had 4.0+ GPA. I think I had a 4.78 by the end of senior year :D.

That GPA is bullshiz. I took 23 AP classes and they didn't inflate my GPA. On other scales like the one at your school, I would have had well over a 5.XX GPA.

It's not possible to get 5.00 GPA at my school. Just because there are some mandatory unweighted classes and weighted classes are only worth 5.00. I think out of my 24 classes, 16 of them were weighted or something like that I can't remember.
We crazy Palm Beach County schools dish out 6.0's for A's in AP and IB classes. The Vals had like a 5.3 weighted GPA.
 

Ionizer86

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Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: HumblePie
Originally posted by: neutralizer
Originally posted by: HumblePie
What happens if your high school class size was 1800+ and doesn't do ranks?

How was your class that big?!?! How big is your whole school?


Student body was around 8000 to 9000 or so. A freshman/sophmore campus with 5 buildings around 4 stories or taller each facing a court yard. A junior/senior campus with around 12 or so single and double story buildings (I think there is one three story building if I remember). There was an alternative campus with a few buildings I never went to. The footbal stadium, baseball stadium(s), 4 soccer fields, an Ag farm for the agricultural classes and something else.

Oh.. it's about one of the biggest high schools in the country. Judson.

Holy crap and I thought my school being 3800 students at its peak was big. It must bs so crowded there or something.
They *finally* finished that new school down the road? Phew, no more having a dozen portables in the back :)
 

bapace

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high school in no way prepares you for college. don't bust your ass in High School. Get good SAT scores, and you are golden.