re: Why do people rag on Ole Miss for being dirty, and ignore UK?

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Are you trying to say Briarcrest is a tiny Christian school?

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For a Christian School it is very large (~1600 students k-12), I meant schools with big time high school programs in general. Briarcrest (also name/mascot changed) has more students in k-12 than Prattville school, the school I used in my example, does in 9-12. (400 students per class vs 125 per class average). Alabama has exceptionally small school populations compared to surrounding states. (Tennessee/Georgia/Texas). A typical rural Alabama county may have 5-8 Alabama 2A/3A high schools (200-400 daily enrollment 9-12). We did not go through the consolidation binge of the other Southern States in the 80s (for the most part)

Briarcrest if a public Alabama school would be an Alabama 5A school (2nd largest classification). And a smaller than average one at that. I don't know Tennessee's rule but our privates that compete in public have to treat each student in the average daily enrollment as 1.5 students. This is to movement private schools up slightly (because they can technically recruit). If Briarcrest was an Alabama Private School that competed in the AHSAA they would be still be 5A, just an average sized one.

So for the school size I am used to when dealing with schools in Alabama it is fairly large. I meant in relation with Tennessee public high schools.

How I arrived at the number

1600 (Briarcrest stated enrollment), divided by 13 grades, multiplied by 4 (only count 9-12 for classification purposes). This got an estimated average daily enrollment. Which I compared to the AHSAA numbers (because the average Alabama high school is little compared to say Tennesee.)

Damn crunching those numbers it is a big school for a private school. Being that it is in suburban Memphis and is the consolidation of most of the set ups by the cities Baptist churches that makes sense.

But still not a place you expect the normal jump from high school. Springdale (Malzahn's last high school gig) has an enrollment over 1800 in just 4 grades.