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W alking to your next class during the
five minute passing period could be
very fun but sometimes tiresome. Waving
and saying, “ Hi” to your friends and all
the people you know could be a job in
itself, but it’s a job done with much pride,
and popularity is first prize.
A small school offers students a
chance to get to know a lot of people,
have many close friends, and meet differ­
ent types of individuals. It gives students
a chance to work, study, and relate to
one another.
At Ralston you will observe a close­
ness that unifies this small school, in the
student-teacher-parent relationship.
Everyone sticks together to make the
Ralston District concept work.
Most students who are enrolled came
from the same middle school and, there­
fore, nearly everyone is on the same edu­
cational level, due to the district meth­
ods. Because of this, freshmen find no
problems in beginning high school.
Class size ranges near 274 seniors,
340 juniors, 315 sophomores, and 323
freshmen. Keeping this in mind, it’s a lot
easier for students to ‘make it’ into spe­
cial activities such as clubs, cheerlead­
ing, and sports.
With only 90 teachers in our faculty,
there is also a closeness present. There
are faculty functions like pre and post­
school parties, a Christmas party, and
golf and tennis tournaments.
It takes all types of people working
together to accomplish the unity that
characterizes our small school. It is work,
what we accomplish, and the way it gets
done, that makes our school system
work. To simplify, we say . .. “Smaller is
Better.”

Gimme a R-A-M. Students cheer on toward the first game of the football season,
against Papillion. The final score was 20-7, in favor of the Monarchs

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