Did the elementary/high schools you went to consist of one large building?

[Deleted member 197]

I'm not american but i just wanted to say that my high school was heaven, it was roughly 22 acres which i guess may not sound much considering the size of schools you do dare, but my school was very tiny and there was only a main building with 8 rooms (all of which you accessed from "outside") and there were 3 classrooms which you had to walk a bit to access, everything else was just pure greenery and sports stuff and the like (Which werent used during the day apart from soccer stuff).

I miss it somedays, there was just a ridiculous sense of freedom and "nature", there were days where we just walk through it just trying to find something.

 

[Kieli]

Elementary School = 1 classroom, 1 teacher, 1 building
High School = multiple teachers, multiple classrooms, 1 building
University = multiple teachers, multiple classrooms, multiple buildings, 1 campus
PhD/Post-doctoral Fellowships = 1+ advisor, multiple classrooms, multiple buildings, multiple campuses (to avoid academic in-breeding, present at conferences, and for visiting scholarship duties)

 

[Slick Butter]

All in a single building for elementary, middle, and high school. Though the Christian school i attended for pre-school and kindergarten was two buildings.

 

[roguebubble]

From UK - infants and primary school where one building each but secondary was 6 buildings - probably cause it was an old building that had to expand to accommodate a higher intake and it would've been easier to build new blocks than expand the main building

 

[deimosmasque]

Yes one large buildingfor me.

My partner had multiple buildings and a campus.

 

[Nemesis121]

My HS covered a city block they gave us 5mins to get from class to class..

Edit: give you an idea how big my HS was...

Also i lived on on Erasmus Street 4 blocks away...

 

[BennyWhatever]

All of mine were one building, but I attended speech meets all over the place and there were several high schools with multiple buildings.

 

[Deleted member 17210]

My elementary schools were all one building as far as the main structures went but they had "portables", basically single classroom expansions nearby. My high school was sort of multiple buildings but they were connected by having the walkways having overhead covers for rain.

 

[Cross-Section]

Nope, several buildings. No lockers, either (outside the PE changing rooms).

 

[Deleted member 12833]

When I lived in Cali, all my school were multi building with outside halls. When I moved to Midwest, they were all inside. It gets cold af here, doesn't make sense to have outside halls

 

[LProtagonist]

Yes, though I did intern at a high school that had a beautiful campus with multiple buildings.

 

[Saganator]

I went to elementary school in San Jose, I remember all the schools including high school had multiple buildings. Then we moved to Denver and all the schools are one large building. I always assumed it was due to the climate differences. It would be a pain in the ass to go from class to class with snow on the ground.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

All my elementary schools were 1 building,
My middle school was a 1920's building that had a billion wings added, a separate gym building, loads of classes under the football stadium and about 20+ classes in trailers around back.
(a sinkhole opened up under the juniorhigh so the had to pack a large group of 8th graders into an already outdated and overcrowded middle while the 9th got packed into the crowded and outdated highschool 4ish years before the new one opened)

both highschools were 1 large building


Funny enough that extremely outdated and overcrowded middleschool was the one I liked the most.
shit was crazy though, you couldn't get out of your class sections between bells it was so crowded in the halls.
literally nobody ever used their lockers because of that either I probably used mine 5ish times in the 3 years I was there, just carried all our stuff to all our classes.

 

[Deimos]

All schools here are one building.

 

[Z-Beat]

My elementary school sorta was. It was multiple smaller buildings connected by overhangs and halls.

My Middle School was one big building with some small temporary buildings and a standalone gym

My highschool was a weird futuristic prison looking thing...

And also the Reaver planet

 

[AGoodODST]

My secondary school was one small building built during WW2 lol. There was like less than 200 people in the whole school.

 

[Accoun]

All my schools were one building. I guess my elementary had the infirmary in a small separate building and the computer class was in a basement only reachable from the outside, but only that and later schools had everything in one building.

Also, no lockers. In elementary we just hanged our jackets/PE bags in front of the classrooms (they were assigned to grades, not subjects) and later there were dedicated attended cloakrooms.

 

[Squarehard]

Mine all had separate buildings, but the high school my siblings went to was all just one building with no windows.

It was odd.

 

[Merv]

More or less. Very small town, the Highschool and Elementary were seperate buildings with the same parking lot. The gym was a seperate building in the same place. There was a classroom in the gym building and junior high moved back and forth between all three buildings.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

My senior year of high school my school was going under massive remodeling and we had like 36 portables outside, we called it a portable city

 

[Zeshile]

All one big building, except gym in elementary school was in a separate building and mostly took place outside. Since then though, I believe that school now has one connected to the main building.

 

[synapsidal]

Northeast here. Elementary and Middle school were single buildings w/modular extensions, High School was one big building with a fully connected extension building instead of mods.

 

[Tiny Hawk]

Most of the schools I went to were mostly one large building with an additional extension classroom. The two elementary schools I went to had the classrooms that couldn't fit in the main building in small portables outside. Middle school had an extension building that housed woodworking/metalworking classes and the detention room. High school was the only one with a single large building.

Also lockers were only a thing in middle school and high school. 1st elementary school had designated hooks in the halls, though 6th graders did get lockers, 2nd elementary school had a designated area in each classroom which was usually a room that led outside to the playground.

 

[Ryuelli]

Lol, nope. I grew up in the suburbs of Houston. My high school alone had 4000+ kids at one point (it has around 2700 now because they've built enough new high schools to somewhat alleviate the stress now).

The school district is currently up to 91 campuses, and it's not even close to being the largest in the area.

 

[YMB]

Mope. Grade, middle and high were all seperate buildings, though on the same general campus.

 

[MegaRockEXE]

I've always wanted to answer this, but no, that's not how any of the schools are in my area. It's not like on TV. The schools here have multiple buildings and no lockers.

 

[J_ToSaveTheDay]

All of my primary schools were multi-winged, single structures. Like, wings would branch out from one another in parts of the buildings but I never had to go outside to get from one wing to the next.

I didn't have a "campus" layout until college/university.

 

[BigDes]

My high school was so big it had two separate campuses and it was a five minute walk between them.

Sucked when you had class in one, then had to go to the other one and then back to the first one.

 

[Nude_Tayne]

My high school...

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[Stiler]

My first elementary school was one building, pretty much like you would see in movies. There were no lockers though.

My second elementary school however had one larger building but then they had like 3 smaller outside trailers? That's what they pretty much looked like lol which taught grades 4-6 or so.

My high school was just one large building, but it was such a terrible design, we had NO windows at all aside from the lunch room. When the school was built the designer and planners thought that windows would harm people being taught and make them daydream/lose focus, so they decided to build it without any windows at all. We had lockers in it, but they were NOT like the lockers you see in movies that go from like the ground all the way up, they were like "shoe box" size lockers, you could fit a few books in them and not much else. However you had to use them, unless you wanted to carry like 20lbs worth of books everywhere.

 

[Rhomega]

Yes, though notably my last high school had recently added a new small building connected by sky bridge.

 

[devilhawk]

All of my primary schools were multi-winged, single structures. Like, wings would branch out from one another in parts of the buildings but I never had to go outside to get from one wing to the next.

I didn't have a "campus" layout until college/university.

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This is how I would describe my elementary/middle/high school. They were all "single" buildings but weren't like a Walmart looking box shape.

 

[Fuzzy]

Both schools started their lives as single buildings but because of population increases they both added portables outside the main building. You can see a bit of the inside of my HS in this Rush video.



EDIT: I just looked up a Google map of my elementary school and they've added onto the main building and gotten rid of almost all of the portables.

 

[Khanimus]

My jr. high had acouple classrooms separated from the main building, but those were for specialty classes.

My elementary and high school were both single buildings.

 

[TheFurizzlyBear]

1st-5th grade was all in one building (though I went to 3 different schools during this period that all shared this characteristic). 6th-8th were in trailers separate from from the main building (4th school). 9th-12th grade was an actual campus with 4 different buildings for class.

 

[dom]

My HS covered a city block they gave us 5mins to get from class to class..

Edit: give you an idea how big my HS was...

Also i lived on on Erasmus Street 4 blocks away...

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I raise you

There are far larger ones still here in Cali

 

[Awesome Kev]

No, in fact most of my classes were in portables.

 

[Kevers]

I imagine you went to school in a warm climate. In places where it gets cold one large building is the only option.

 

[Spenny]

Nope. My schools here in SoCal were always large campuses.

 

[Xenocthul]

Yes, the ones I attended were 1 large building.

 

[Wubby]

Nope. My schools here in SoCal were always large campuses.

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This. Large and all the hallways are outdoors. Had a locker but mainly used it for holding my skateboard which I rode to and from school.

 

[Midramble]

Elementary was a single 3 story building but had a BBQ shack because North Carolina. The rest were campus style

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

All my schools were a mess of spread out buildings and fields. Like this one. with the sports institute out of frame on the right that was sometimes used.

 

[TheYanger]

Nope, literally never seen a school like that except in the movies.

 

[Fiction]

Can I blow your mind and tell you that my elementary school, middle school, and high school were all literally the same building?

 

[Deleted member 41502]

I always assumed this just had to do with climate. Like in the midwest having an outdoor school would mean 20 minutes of putting on snowgear between each class for half the year.

 

[Bitanator]

My schools were like a mini campus, I gew up watching sitcoms and always wanted to be in a school like featured in them, but never did.

 

[Bloodbathnbyond]

My elementary school was one building and I sat in the same chair for 8 years. It was terrible. My high school was several ancient buildings that had (still has?) a major asbestos problem. One of the wings had such a bad graffiti and flooding problem that it eventually got torn down.

 

[Cilla]

Seems like an American thing! I am teaching at a high school in Australia right now and it has 14 different buildings filled with classrooms etc.

 

[Rygar 8Bit]

Central California my elementary, jr high and high school were spread out campuses. Each class was it's own building.

I always assumed this just had to do with climate. Like in the midwest having an outdoor school would mean 20 minutes of putting on snowgear between each class for half the year.

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Yeah that's what I think as well. It's never really cold here in central/socal so everything is more open. Can't really do that in a place that gets a lot of snow.

 

[Neece]

Elementary school - outside campus
Middle school - one three story building with a few trailers outside for some classes
High School - outside campus with trailers