- Did you know that the average American school child spends about 1,000 hours per year in school?
- Did you know that students in Finland have some of the highest test scores in the world, even though
they spend less time in school than students in other countries?
- Did you know that the average teacher makes around 3,000 decisions per day?
- Did you know that the average American high school has a graduation rate of about 78%?
- Did you know that the average American high school student changes classes about seven times per
- Did you know that the color of a school bus is actually called "school bus yellow?"
- Did you know that the first school lunch program in the U.S. was started in Boston in 1894?
- Did you know that, on average, teachers in the U.S. spend around $500 of their own money on school
supplies each year?
- Did you know that kindergarten was not part of the public school system in the U.S. until the 1950s?