Electives Department

· The Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in the United States founded in 1635. Five signers of the Declaration of Independence attended the school including Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Adams and William Hopper.

· Around 480,000 yellow school buses carry 25 million children to and from school every day.

· A standard pencil has enough graphite to write roughly 45,000 words or draw a line 35 miles long. This fact has yet to be tested.

· Before the invention of erasers, breadcrumbs were used to erase mistakes.

· The largest high school in America has over 8,000 students. It is Morton High School in Berwyn-Cicero, Ill. The East Campus has over 6,000 students, and it is a co-op high school.

· 67% of kids like school.

· High school was not really a part of school until the 1930s. Before then most Americans only completed eight years of school. This changed during the Great Depression when many communities had little work to offer. They figured that keeping teenagers in the classrooms would keep them out of the work force, and therefore not compete with adults who required higher pay than a teen would.

· Indiana has 9 of the top ten largest high school gymnasiums in America.

Source: https://becksautocenter.com/blog/back-school-fun-facts/