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[quote=Anonymous]There really is no hard and fast rule, OP. I went to a very small middle school, so my high school felt enormous by comparison, even though it was on the smaller side compared to most US high schools.

Yes, you have a bigger social pool in a bigger school, but you're also getting shuffled around so much during the day that you might never consistently see the same people. In a smaller-to-medium (leaving out the micro schools here) school, you're going to have a smaller pool, but you're naturally going to interact with most of them on a regular basis. There were kids in my high school class who were functionally strangers to me, whereas I knew every single person in my middle school. I liked both environments, but neither was objectively better or worse.

Both from my own and my kids' experience, extracurriculars/community outside of school are so important. If something goes down in the school friend group, having another established social group where you can "escape" can be key.

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