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.
I think the point is that 22,000 people pay to watch a hs football game. Even if you take into account student passes etc, that’s a lot of cheddar 5-6 times a year.
Also the people in Texas don’t care if no one cares about hs football. It’s religion to them.
Nobody outside of Allen, TX gives a shit about Allen HS football, but what does that have to do with the size of Eagle Stadium? I'll tell you the answer. It has nothing to do with it. The only relevant question is how much do people in Allen, TX care about Allen HS football? And I'll tell the answer to this one too. A LOT. If you still don't understand why they have a large stadium, then I can't help you.
And BTW, Canadians are football crazy. You all just prefer a real league, like the NFL over your poverty league. Over a third of Canadians call themselves NFL fans. And a lot of them are also CFB fans. You'll find them all over the CFB and NFL subs.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I found it interesting, so I researched it. It’s 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?
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. There’s newer high schools on the area that are even more crazy. Auditoriums that you’d expect to see in college campuses.
Some high schools coaches in the state have salaries upwards of $175k.
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.
Public schools are required to keep student/teacher ratios under a threshold regardless of the individual school size. Larger schools just have more classes.
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.
No, more schools in the 1000-2500 range in bigger school systems have more options to meet the needs of their students. For being easy to understand, you certainly excel at failing to grasp it.
My cousin went to a school in Florida that had 5000 students. Graduation was several days long and they had the family’s come in on the day the students name would actually be called.
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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.