EAST HELENA HIGH SCHOOL

In small schools, students tend to be more satisfied, more academically productive, more likely to participate in school activities, better behaved, and less likely to dropout than students in large schools... The size of high schools in the research shows an indirect effect on student learning. Essentially, more moderately sized schools -those with 900 or fewer students- seem to improve the climate and conditions for student success, teacher sense of self-efficacy and appropriate sense of responsibility for student learning, when accompanied by high expectations, standards and supporting strategies.