High+School

Van Meter High School is very unique on the way it functions. Every student 6-12 has their own Apple laptop. Having the laptops makes it different to teach and many teachers have had to adjust to try to incorporate the laptops into their lessons. With this the students, including me, have used many web-based tools that have helped me with projects and assignments. Doing papers and assignments on the computer has been great because you can be creative with the assignments and try to create it into something that can help you in the future.

The school year is 180 days long that consists of three breaks- Fall Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break. When we do have snow days they would either go where we had gaps for making up those days, or we would and them on to the end of the year. Most of the time we have so many snow days that we have to go to June 4th or somewhere around there.

Class sizes are fairly small in regular class. There is about 15- 20 students in each class. 9th- 12th is mixed in with each other, so you get to know many people. There are also many classes where you stick with your grade because of the courses that you are needing to take.

The high school enrollment is about 207 students based on the Oct. 1st attendance sheet. There are about 44 teachers including elementary and part-time teachers.

The school is fairly small which explains the class sizes and the amount of teachers. With a small school you get more one-on-one attention, and you can get help from teachers easier.

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