HRCJR posted:CaCO3Girl posted:There is a town in GA called woodstock. It is 11.7 square miles big. Within that town there are two 7A high schools, one 6A high school. That's over 6 thousand kids in 11.7 square miles.
The state 7A championship is being played by two schools 2.2 miles apart from each other. And there are other schools in Woodstock in lower classifications.
The population of high school kids in GA is bigger than people think.
That is still a lot of State Championships - kinda watered down. Doesn't mean much to say you are one of 7 (or 10 depending on how you count it) State Champions.
I think 4 is a lot in Illinois. I wish they had a final tournament amongst the 4 winners. Find one true champion.
In illinois we have 89 schools with enrollment of over 2000. We have an area just north of Chicago(10 sq miles if that much) with with 7,000 students in two public schools. You can also throw into that area a Catholic school with 2100 students plus a few other private high schools with another 1000 or so kids.
Arkansas has seven classifications with a much, much smaller population.