Definitely that first part... beyond ordinary definitely, it was screamingly so.
Not the second part. I opened, as a teacher, the school and it evolved over the years, with a widely disparate school population, really rich and advantaged and really poor and disadvantaged...
We had a great opening administration and some of the following administrations [ they were moving our good/sometimes great principals off to fix other schools oftentimes, every other year ]... then my last 5 admin went wow downhill and they [downtown], unfortunately for us, changed the policy on principal transfers, did not bring one of our old good principals back and instead kept this one still in place...that and under the onslaught of losing so many teachers who were disgruntled by the cookie-cutterisms and many who will not work for such, they left in droves the year after I left [ which had no bearing on anything that I can tell]...
While I was there we had a very cosmopolitan population, folks from literally everywhere, so it was like holding a mini UN summit every class. Lots of Latin Americans, Islanders, Asians, Europeans, Indians from India... Yeah, I had kids who could only speak Creole, or Portugues or Spanish, our Koreans, the ones I had, already seemed proficient in English ...was a real mix, a novelty and a joy to have such an actual and not a contrived diversity.
The clash of cultures stimulates a lot of lively discussion... but with that we had ones with electronic ankle bracelets, would tell us in class discussions that at home they were always "strapped" ... all the way up to those who lived on surrounding lakes, one, in particular, I remember had 5 jet skiis parked at "home", a home which was more like a finely appointed museum. He did a "package" I think they called it, on his "crib" for our high school TV productions...
Had about the same amount, a third in the upper 30 percent incomes while more than a third receiving free or reduced lunches.
Know what I'm saying?