Montana High School Sizes

[ChiOCat]

LCHS is ahead of Bigfork.

Yes, it's the first thing I looked for

[SonomaCat]

I credit the demise of my hometown (Opheim) to NASA. See if you can figure that one out.

The closing of St. Marie Air Force Base and the #3 spot to land a space shuttle...

Or it could be Opheim is just way to damn cold in the winter.

St Marie is too far to have much of an effect on Opheim, but the Radar Base a few miles out of town had quite a few people at one time.
The Radar Bases (Lewistown had one too) were closed when satellites became the early warning system of choice

good to see you back CTOWM

That is exactly correct! Damn satalites! My class in 6th grade had 32. The whole high school is 2/3 of that now. I ended up graduating with 16 which isn't all that bad. When doing my resume, top 16 in my high school class sounds better than top 32.

And good to be back. I hope you are doing well.

I always liked floating the "top 6 in my class," and then only later mention that I graduated in a class of 6. It's good for freak value, anyway.

[allcat]

I graduated in the top 10 of my class, but the bottom 50%. 8 guys 8 girls I was the top guy.

[kennethnoisewater]

LCHS is ahead of Bigfork.

Yes, it's the first thing I looked for

It must be hard for you to watch LCHS lose to Bigfork in everything, being a smaller school and all. I'm so glad the Bigfork/Eureka rivalry is coming back. Now if only Eureka could be competitive enough to make it interesting!

Bigfork had over 400 students less than 10 years ago and that number plummeted in the last four or five (257 now). The town is growing, but with retirees. Somebody had to build the houses, so there were a ton of good jobs in Bigfork...until they quit building.

[El Griz]

My mothers Ophiem graduating class had 5. (but that was in 1950)