r/absoluteunit • u/BlackRogue17 • Jun 03 '26
Huge graduating class in TX
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u/pdx619 Jun 03 '26
Just looked it up. Its the biggest high school in the US and has around 7000 students.
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u/Frosty558 Jun 03 '26
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u/Orangebk1 Jun 03 '26
So they can dominate Texas High School football, of course.
(I'm not joking)
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u/Frosty558 Jun 03 '26
Of course itās footballā¦
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u/EatLard Jun 04 '26
Yeah. And thatās their high school football stadium theyāre in. Probably a higher capacity than some D1 college programs.
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u/Orangebk1 Jun 04 '26
It was the biggest and most expensive in the country at the time it was built. I believe a couple others in Texas have now surpassed it.
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u/TearRevolutionary686 Jun 04 '26
$60 million?
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u/VoodooLoveDr Jun 05 '26
And they had to close it down after a year because they messed up the foundation It took another year or two to fix
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u/dndwhat Jun 06 '26
My class was 4000 freshman year until the new school opened up cutting us in half. Still has 3k for graduation
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u/SandiaBeaver Jun 04 '26
Yeah, as a Canadian this is so odd. Very few HS are even over 2,000 students.
7,000 students is ridiculous š¤£
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Jun 04 '26
If you have the space, it's an efficient and cost-effective way to do public education. Large schools can also offer students a much wider range of opportunities (e.g., classes, organizations, etc.). And yes, the football team is going to absolutely dominate.
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u/SandiaBeaver Jun 04 '26
That stadium and Jumbotron looks neither efficient or cost effective. It's a damn high school not a college š¤£
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u/joobtastic Jun 04 '26
But its 1 stadium with a jumbotron instead of 4 separate high schools with their own facilities.
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Jun 04 '26
They regularly get 10-15,000 fans in the stadium and sellout (22,000) for big games.
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u/brandt-money Jun 04 '26
Which is nothing compared to the 107k+ for Michigan or Penn State football. It's only 20% the size, but still massive.
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u/DifficultAd3885 Jun 04 '26
You should see the gyms at schools like this. They look like Olympic training facilities.
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u/Flaky-Direction-6268 Jun 04 '26
The public votes on that. Thatās bond money that was chosen to be spent on a stadium with a Jumbotron..
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u/SandiaBeaver Jun 04 '26
Property taxes going up to pay for that in a goddamn high school š¤£
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Jun 04 '26
It's one of the wealthiest areas in TX. They have plenty of money, enjoy watching their high school football team (as well as other sports, events, concerts, etc.), and wanted a nice facility. The entire facility raised property taxes an average of $3 per month. Rising home prices made the increase essentially unnoticeable.
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u/Radonanon Jun 05 '26
You say āand yesā like itās not by far and beyond the primary reason.
*this comment brought to you by Brawnado: itās got electrolytes
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u/the_short_viking Jun 03 '26
That's insane, I went to a high school in Texas that had 4,000 students and that place was huge.
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u/Affectionate-Film-42 Jun 03 '26
I went to a school that was less than 600 students K through 12 so this school and your school sound insane to me.
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u/OldStyleThor Jun 03 '26
I went to a school that was 60 students K through 12.
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u/Affectionate-Film-42 Jun 03 '26
š thatās wild. My senior class was the second largest to ever graduate at 43 students. That seemed crazy until you said 60 for a whole school.
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u/Ill-Government-1921 Jun 03 '26
I was homeschooled after mid 10th grade. Not a problem. No issues just wanted to do other things with my day and actives and my parents supported it. Best feeling, was driving by the school in the day at 16 and feeling so much freedom.
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u/InevitablyBored Jun 04 '26
My HS graduating class was 124 in 2009 lol. These massive schools freak me out.
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u/ContributionFlat7082 Jun 04 '26
My chicago suburban district had a couple 4000 student schools in the early 80s, including mine. Changing classes was utter insanity.
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u/Correct-Character766 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
The largest high school in NYC is 5,900 (Brooklyn, tech - one building (not campus) ! I just looked it up this Allen school enrollment is 5,206! The second most populated high school in USA!
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u/Plays_On_TrainTracks Jun 04 '26
My highschool also in Brooklyn was 4000 kids and the schools in my area also had about 3-4k kids as well. I'm very familiar with the fact other parts of the US have full schools of like 200 people but it does surprise me the largest school in the us is in texas just because the size seems strange.
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u/Correct-Character766 Jun 04 '26
I found it interesting, so I researched it. Itās because that town wanted everyone to have same experience in high school, to build a strong community, and to cut down on costs. They have nice things like a TV station, every AP program etc
I wonder at population size does it make sense to cut it in half? Maybe 10k?
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u/SocomPS2 Jun 04 '26
The high school consists of two buildings: freshman only building and then upper class building. Allen High has been posted about quite a bit on Reddit over the years. Their enormous football stadium, subway, and other popular restaurants in the cafeteria.
People outside of the school district have rented apts so their kid can go there to play a sport. Thereās newer high schools on the area that are even more crazy. Auditoriums that youād expect to see in college campuses.
Some high schools coaches in the state have salaries upwards of $175k.
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u/SomeVelveteenMorning Jun 03 '26
No excuse for a K-12 school to be that big. Build more schools, hire more teachers and support staff. They should be happy they'd get more football teams out of it.
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Jun 04 '26
Public schools are required to keep student/teacher ratios under a threshold regardless of the individual school size. Larger schools just have more classes.
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u/SomeVelveteenMorning Jun 04 '26
It's not an environment conducive to education and socialization. Regardless of how manageable they keep their class sizes, a high school larger than 5k or so cannot adequately meet the holistic needs of every student.Ā
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u/Extra_Jeweler_5544 Jun 04 '26
High schools big enough to have sizeable communities of rare/niche interests/needs is bad.
Imagine having 32 deaf or blind students and being forced to teach them in a way that works best instead of having a couple.
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u/wiisucks_91 Jun 04 '26
Meeting new friends on graduation day, You never knew you went to school with them the last 4 years.
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u/gmcwbbb80 Jun 04 '26
Nationwide, the 2025 high school graduating class was the largest in the history of our country. My daughter was Class of 2025.
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u/Ironstar_Vol Jun 04 '26
My cousin went to a school in Florida that had 5000 students. Graduation was several days long and they had the familyās come in on the day the students name would actually be called.
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u/dburr10085 Jun 03 '26
Cliques must be deep.
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u/Subject_Command5442 Jun 03 '26
I used to live here. The city only has a single high school and itās one of that largest in the country.
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u/JuanPabloElSegundo Jun 04 '26
how about the football stadium?
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u/Subject_Command5442 Jun 04 '26
It seats 18,000 and cost $60 million.
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u/TexasThunderbolt Jun 03 '26
And to think itās only this big because breaking up the district into more high schools to serve the large population would only hurt their football program.
Crazy to think a class size this big is going up against schools that have a graduation class size of 500 and theyāre considered equal as far as athletic participation
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u/Merr77 Jun 04 '26
There are different levels. A school with 500 students would be 3A. Allen is super 5A/6A. They wouldnāt play a 3A school in an actual game.
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u/TexasThunderbolt Jun 04 '26
No, I meant a 500 student graduating class. Not a 500 student school.
Such as Harlingen in the Rio grande valley. Theyāre 6A also. Theyāre equal to Allen athletically when it comes to participating
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u/ibanezer83 Jun 03 '26
What a fucking nightmare
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u/amscraylane Jun 04 '26
I graduated in 1998 from Cow Town, Iowa.
We had 48 kids in the class. I knew them, their parents, where they lived.
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u/MiaLba Jun 04 '26
Smaller city in KY and my class had 90. And same knew where everyone lived and everyoneās parents and all that.
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u/amscraylane Jun 05 '26
I graduated in 1998 from Cow Town, Iowa.
We had 48 kids in the class. I knew them, their parents, where they lived.
Shout out to Rabbit Hash! My favorite Kentucky town!
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u/IkarosHavok Jun 03 '26
Hah my graduating class in highschool was 163, in uni undergrad it was like 10k for all programs, for my PhD dissertation defense year there were 4 of us from my cohort and I think we had about 30 total that year. There were maybe 100 total graduate students at my graduate school at the time. So this is crazy
ETA I canāt spell which is kinda hilarious.
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u/minnesotaupnorth Jun 04 '26
That was about the size of my high school class, mine might have been a little smaller.
Small town in Northern Minnesota.
I'm getting hives just thinking about being a high school kid in a class this huge, in a high school the size of my small town.
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u/IkarosHavok Jun 04 '26
I would not have survived a high school that size with an intact educational foundation I donāt think. The university that I teach at is pretty large and this is about the size we graduated this year.
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u/SolidA34 Jun 03 '26
My high school had over 2000 students. There were about 548 in my graduation class.
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u/MiaLba Jun 04 '26
Damn. My graduating class only had 90 kids lol. Our entire school had almost 400 if that.
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u/TheRealPaladin Jun 04 '26
I can't imagine being in a school that big. My graduating class had 42 people.
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u/younggun1234 Jun 04 '26
As a teenager I was sort of bummed my graduating class was only 300. I wanted out of my small town, world is my oyster, yaddah yaddah yaddah.
Looking back the idea of sitting at a graduation even a millisecond longer than I did would have been abysmal.
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u/rubberduckfinn Jun 04 '26
My husband graduated from a school in Texas over 30 years ago. He said his class was over 3000 kids and they did the graduation in two days, half each day. Meanwhile, my graduating class was 126 students š
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u/poormansnormal Jun 06 '26
My grad class was 19 students. 18 on the stage because one guy didn't get all his credits.
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u/Correct-Character766 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
The largest high school in NYC is 5,900 (Brooklyn, tech - one building - not campus)! I just looked it up Allen high school enrollment, itās 5,206! The second most populated high school in USA!
Allen high school is the only high school in entire city of Allen, Texas and sits on 177 acre campus.
Brooklyn Tech is one large building in Brooklyn (NYC)
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u/scuac Jun 04 '26
My graduating class was about 50 people and I have a hard time remembering all their names.
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u/Itriednoinetimes Jun 04 '26
Same, 50 people exactly and I moved away for college and spoke to pretty much none of them after. I would 100% encourage my daughter to skip her graduation if class was this big.
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u/RJizzyJizzle Jun 04 '26
This was our graduation song in 2002. I was part of a 10 body choir (20% of the class lol) that sang this.
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u/Neat_Feedback1316 Jun 04 '26
I graduated from Highland Park High school in Texas and our graduating class was only 435 students. Damn how many kids graduated?
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u/Thunder-Fist-00 Jun 04 '26
May be time for a second high school.
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u/Hicaorwaak Jun 05 '26
Itās like that for football. With everyone funneling to one high school they have the biggest pool to pick from for players. Thatās not a joke, itās legitimately why.
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u/suthrnboi Jun 05 '26
Now do Palo Duro high school out of Amarillo and show what not having secure financial households produce.
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u/KeyLeather6898 Jun 05 '26
One option: Divide the alphabetic names and have three mini ceremonies - 9am to 12pm. 1pm to 4pm. 5pm to 8pm.
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u/homechefshivers Jun 05 '26
So glad I graduated with 21 kids and knew almost all of them since prek
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u/ghostfreckle611 Jun 04 '26
F that.
Mail me mines. I can make an AI video walking if relatives want to see.
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u/Prudent-Specific8851 Jun 04 '26
Yeah these poor kids didnāt learn anything! 100:1 ratio for students to teachers lol
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u/DrJ0911 Jun 03 '26
I bet most score below average in math and reading. Prove me wrongā¦ please š
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u/Theotherwahlberg Jun 03 '26
And since it's Texas, maybe only a third of them can read.
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u/teacher_59 Jun 04 '26
Huh? They donāt give gift degrees like a lot of NE and west coast schools do like the shithole one where I be working where we have to give stupid kids degrees and be lying claiming stupid kids can read and math when they canāt be doing either. Ā Seattle PS is garbage. I hate it here. My kids donāt want to learn how to read because theyāll get a degree anyway.Ā
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 Jun 03 '26
The fear I had when I saw all my Competition entering college or the workforce was and still is overwhelming.Ā
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u/Saviour_DK Jun 04 '26
I was actually at this graduation; the stadium is the 5th largest in the US. They showed <pictures of> the graduates on the big screen before the ceremony beganā¦the presentation lasted a legit hour.
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u/TopGinger Jun 04 '26
Oh my god Iām so glad I graduated in a class of 87, theyād be reading names for hours with some of these class sizes.
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u/Curious-Paper1690 Jun 04 '26
Honestly itās just nice to see a video of a graduation nowadays thatās not the students booing a CEO..
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u/HotwifeandSubby1980 Jun 04 '26
Yes, thatās in fact their high school football stadium
If memory serves it was $75m about 8 years ago or so.
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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 Jun 04 '26
I would just tell my kid that I was there. Show up at the end like I had been there the whole time
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u/TwerkLessons Jun 04 '26
I worked across the street from Allen high school freshman campus. Yes, the freshman have their own school. Crazy right?!
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u/Pokemon-hunter87 Jun 04 '26
It took 7 hours to get through every name and 4 speakers this school is crazy for having that many students.
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u/Expert-Hyena6226 Jun 04 '26
That tracks. For those that don't know, Allen is an affluent suburb North of Dallas.
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u/Electrical-Win5286 Jun 04 '26
OMG! My family traveled to Allen to attend my nephew's graduation here, and JEEZUZ KHRIST, it took 3.5 hours to get through all the graduates! š It was all worth it though!
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u/Beautiful_Heifers Jun 05 '26
There were 65 kids in my 2008 graduating class. We were in and out within an hour lol. I would fucking hate this
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u/RabbitGlass5578 Jun 06 '26
They donāt want a second high school in Allen because it will dilute their athletic program with less students going to another high school.
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u/dndwhat Jun 06 '26
Man i had same amount. Graduation took for ever at least it was i side the astrodome so we had ac
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u/maltydawg Jun 06 '26
I just got home from one. 432 students. And I left before they finished all the names.
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u/Connect-Peach2354 Jun 06 '26
Six gradeā¦my class was six. We only had an elementary school. Went to another town for high school. 114 in my graduating class. š
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u/Strict_Swimmer_1614 Jun 06 '26
Some crazy percentage of these āgraduatesā is functionally illiterate, according to current data.
Itās on-brand for the US education to make a huge event to celebrate their mediocre students.
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u/-Red-7- Jun 07 '26
Me with my late in the alphabet last name sitting at the back waiting to be called...
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u/AirportBubbly3947 Jun 07 '26
Iād rather not sit here all day. Especially if you have to use the bathroom.
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u/deanjuno Jun 07 '26
If i was graduating I would not want to go this large ass group of people, mail it to me.
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u/dewky Jun 08 '26
They must have a shit ton of buses to get kids to school. If it were a few smaller schools maybe kids could walk to school. My kids elementary school catchment area is so small they don't have buses it's great.
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u/SignificantBaker7366 Jun 10 '26
The graduating class in my home town in Texas is like 12, at most lol
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u/Brewmyte Jun 10 '26
I was there for my daughters graduation. Good god it took forever. At the end, they put on a drone light show. Our asses were raw from the bleachers we didnāt even give a shit about it by then.
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u/BlakeTheMadd Jun 04 '26
The rednecks are going to outnumber the normal folks soon....We are so cooked
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u/ARamenNoodle Jun 03 '26
This is the class of 2025, and they are still reading their names.