America Has Too Many Schools

www.wsj.com ^ | May 9, 2024 | By Sara Randazzo and Matt Barnum

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—In a huge city awash with tiny schools, few are smaller than the Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy.

The public high school, housed in a former hospital in East Los Angeles, is down to 170 students from the surrounding Latino neighborhoods. On a hallway bulletin board, handwritten hearts display reasons students love the school, including, “how everyone knows each other” and “the fact that school is small.”

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When I was at Gonzaga, we had about 2000 undergrads, about 800 lived on campus. It was a welcoming, close knit community.

Thanks in part to the success of the basketball teams over the past 25 years, enrollment has grown to over 6000. Based on my last visit about 7 years ago, GU has retained its reputation as a close community.

Most of my classes had fewer than 20 students, although my accounting classes had more than 60.