High School Schools Vs Nevada Schools Essay

Manhattan vs. Nevada. My sophomore year I attended Manhattan High School in Manhattan, KS and I attended Nevada High in Nevada, MO the other three years. Class size, the amount of homework, and diversity are three things that are different between these two schools. There are many differences and similarities in these two high schools. My graduating class in Manhattan has roughly four hundred students compared to my Nevada graduating class that had more than half of that at one hundred ninety-seven students. The difference in class size is a big change because my freshman year at NHS I got to know just about everyone in my class because we had a lot of classed together; but at MHS I only knew a few of the students in my class that I had more than one class with. At MHS I had smaller classes because there were more teachers per subject. My biggest class was Spanish where there was only one …show more content…
Nevada High School is mostly Caucasians. The three years I went to the high school there were no more than thirty people of any other race out of over six hundred people. In contrast, at MHS you couldn’t walk down the hall without seeing a mixture of people. Other ways of telling how different the schools where about diversity is the classes they offer. Manhattan offered drives ed. Whereas Nevada does not. In contrast, Nevada offers agriculture class and MHS does not. These differences are because of the differences in location; Nevada is a small rural town where Manhattan is a big town that has a large university in it. There are many similarities and differences between the two schools, more than I wrote about in here. But these three where the top three that I could think about. The class size difference, the amount of homework you are used to getting, and the diversity of the students are all things that can affect you when change