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Originally Posted by urbanlife
More than likely they would have it broken up by grades per floor. So your freshmen classes in the first couple floors, then sophomore classes on the next few floors, and so on. There is a high school in Manhattan that is in a tower that is basically like this.
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That wouldn't work for Lincoln, as each teacher has his assigned classroom where they teach classes for different grades. For example, a teacher might teach English 1-2 (typically taken by freshmen), and English 3-4 (typically taken by sophomores), and another one might teach English 5-6 and English 7-8. There are also many electives taken by all grade levels. The teachers have their own assigned classrooms because they don't have other offices, unlike at a university, and the classrooms have equipment, books, and other teaching aids specific to the classes taught there. So it would not be possible for each grade's students to take all or even most of their classes on the same couple of floors.
I checked Lincoln's bell schedule, and the challenge of moving between rooms is greater than I earlier said. The students get only 35 minutes for lunch. The breaks between classes are either 5 or 10 minutes.
Suppose there's 250 students on each floor and then the break starts, 200 of them are trying to get on an elevator all at once. That's about 10 car loads. Multiply by 8 floors with the same situation.
How many elevators will be required? Anyone do this sort of traffic analysis?