<p>I go to a very big high school in Arizona (around 3700 students) and there are 900 kids in my junior year class. Even though I am in the (barely) top five percent, I am ranked 39 out of 900 students…should i have just gone to a small school where I could have been ranked like 2 of 100? There is another high school close to where I live which is also public, but smaller and less competitive as a whole…</p>
<p>I live in Phoenix, so my school isn’t actually considered exceptionally big but i found out recently it is pretty big compared to alot of other cities</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of it making any difference. </p>
<p>Small schools can have disadvantages too, like there not being enough students interested to offer even one section of a class, or there not being enough high level students to offer certain APs.</p>