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1->''And you still don't have the right look\
2And you don't have the right friends\
3Nothing changes but the faces, the names, and the trends\
4High school never ends!''
5-->--"High School Never Ends", Music/BowlingForSoup
6
7An index for tropes about or tied to high school and secondary education, typically encompassing grades 9-12 and ages 14-18. Strongly connected to TeenageTropes. Precedes TertiaryEducationTropes. Related to PopularityFoodChain.
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9!!Tropes
10[[index]]
11* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil
12* AlphaBitch: The most common setting for an obnoxious popular girl is high school.
13* BestYearsOfYourLife: Words of encouragement from parents towards their children in high school.
14* CarloadOfCoolKids: High school students are common instigators of showoffs in a vehicle.
15* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: College in the movies is just as exaggerated as high school.
16* DawsonCasting: High school movies and television series very frequently hire young adult actors to portray teenage characters due to child labor laws restricting the availability of real teens.
17* DramaClub
18* ElaborateUniversityHigh: A big, fancy-looking high school.
19* FreshmanFears: Freshmen grow fears of starting high school.
20* GottaPassTheClass: A student must get good grades lest they fail and have to attend summer school.
21* GraduationForEveryone
22* HighSchool: The main setting of this trope.
23* HighSchoolAU: A FanFic where the characters are high school students.
24* HighSchoolDance: A prom held in ceremony of graduation.
25* HighSchoolHustler: The rebel in high school.
26* HighSchoolRejects
27* HighSchoolRocks: High school is seen as cool.
28* HighSchoolSweethearts: A couple whose love started in high school ends up getting married.
29* JerkJock: As with the AlphaBitch, the {{Jerkass}} quarterback is a recurring archetype in high school media.
30* JuniorHigh: The training course for preteens and young teens to shed them out of elementary school and prepare them for high school.
31* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
32* PeerAsTeacher: A teacher who is in the same peer group as their students.
33* ThePromPlot
34* ThePromposal
35* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound
36* SeniorYearStruggles
37* SexMiseducationClass: Students in high school are taught lies about human sexuality.
38* ShopClass
39* StrangerInAStrangeSchool
40* TeenDrama: High school is a common setting for this genre.
41* TVTeen
42[[/index]]

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