Fun Facts about School
Each year in the US, over 78.8 million kids, teens, and adults enroll in school.
High school was not officially a part of school until the 1930s. Before that, most Americans only completed eight years of school.
Dave Thomas (Wendy's) went back to high school in 1993 to get his GED, because he was worried that his success as a high school dropout might convince other teenagers to quit school.
Around 480,000 yellow school buses carry 25 million children to and from school every day in the US.
Source: American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), August 2018
