As the new school year starts for students and faculty at NHS, the crowd has increased greatly in numbers. Lunch tables, sports teams, and the hallways are more crowded than ever.
What’s really been affecting people at NHS is the number of more incoming students in classrooms. “I have noticed that I have more students this year than the last couple school years,” special assistance teacher Ted Ringle. What used to be the freshman campus has recently became apart of our school last year after a freshman center was built and became a part of NHS.
The school currently has a population of 2,400 students in grades 9 to 12. From 2007 to 2014, the freshman campus was an open building and recently became the middle school last year. With the freshman wing added on to the high school, the student and teacher population has increased by 10%.
The town of Noblesville is a thriving community and is continuing to grow yearly. Noblesville has a current population of 56,540 citizens in the community and keeps growing every year with families and new incoming students.”The thing is that NHS is going to continue to grow and none of us can prevent that,” Ringle said. Classes with over 30 students is becoming a more common problem for the faculty of 143 members employed at NHS.
Now classroom space isn’t the only issue occurring at NHS due to the growing population in the school. Lunch tables being available is a common problem that is been happening daily at NHS. Chairs are limited, and some students have to go as far as to putting more than one table together. “There’s like no room at any of the lunch tables ever,” junior Austin Broxson said.
As the school year continues for all of us, new students and faculty will continue to pour in and increase throughout each year passing by. The clocks is ticking, and space is limited in NHS.
“For now I don’t think we’ll need to worry about how much space is available, but eventually I think they’ll have to add another part to the building,” Ringle said.
As the days, months, and years go on, the population will boost up. As the building gets packed in more, space becomes limited along with in school accesses.