I went to the "best" public high school in my state and class sizes were enormous but there was extreme tracking so it was easier on the teachers. There was actually a separate building for the worst students! Googling it I see it is still there. I'm not sure how they get away with this.

Anonymous wrote:My dc's hs in FC had almost 2800 students. I seriously doubt there are many high-schools around the world that have that many students. More kids per class--yes--but not more kids per school.

What is FC?

Large schools aren't an America-only phenomenon: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-34486006

The large American comprehensive high school was a type of education that was developed in the early 1900s And really took off after World War II.

The idea was to have one place to educate kids of all different classes; you would bring your college bound kids together with your vocational education kids and I’ll be educated in the same institution.

This type of schooling required buses cars and cheap gas to get kids to and from the regional high schools. In the US we had cheap gas so that wasn’t a problem. The larger your school, the better your football team probably would be, so towns were happy to have larger and larger schools.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-is-the-comprehensive-high-school-doomed/2004/09