What is/was your school like?

Just kind of curious about what other schools are like, especially outside of the US.

I go to a boy's boarding school in the mountains as a day student, since I live in the area. I usually wake up around 6:30 to 7 in the morning to get ready. I eat breakfast, lunch, and (sometimes) dinner at the dining hall on campus. I have "job" at 7:50, where I go clean whatever I am assigned to clean. I then have about a half an hour to go ask teachers questions, finish homework, or mess around before classes (almost never the first one). Classes are about 45 minutes each, ending between 2 and 3, depending on my schedule for the day. On Wednesdays, I have "late wakeup", so I get about an extra hour of sleep, followed by my study hall, which means I have nothing to do until 10:30.
After school, I have sports, which are mandatory. The average sports period starts at about 3:45 and ends around 5 or 5:30.
For our dress code, we have collared shirts on Monday and Friday, shirt and tie Tuesday and Wednesday, and a sports coat on Thursdays.

I guess there aren't a lot of schools like this, but I'm just used to this schedule

That's really interesting, I have a friend who goes to a boarding school like that!
I wake up and get to school at 7:20, class starts 7:30, I get like 40 minutes for lunch, and get out 2:40 because I take 7 periods because I have an extra elective.
If i didn't care to take 7 and only took 6 I would start at 8:30 and end at 2:40 or start at 7:30 & end at 1:42.
Just a normal day, Yours sounds much more interesting.

Started at 9:10 am. A lot of people would take city buses... some drive. There were yellow school buses but only provided to people who live like 45 km away I think, which there were quite a few. It was one of the larger schools in Ottawa, I did a cross-boundary transfer to go to it. My graduating class was over 300 people compared the the grad class of my boundary school that was like 70 people. End at 3:25 pm, classes were 75 min long and there were 4 a day. Lunch was 1 hour. At end of January there were exams and then the semester change -> new classes, those exams mid June. There was day 1 and 2 but only thing that changed was afternoon classes swapped... even date was day 2, odd date day 1. There were no official snow days, even when portable classes were inaccessible, but there were days no one showed up but not a legitimate absence: you were skipping most teachers didn't care though (i.e. depending the teacher you could be responsible for missed work, homework, any test there was etc but most wouldn't do anything those days). There were elected co-prez and certain positions in student council elected. The co-prezs all promised the same thing the 4 years I was there, things that were promised even before I was there that never happened lmfao (e.g. school map in lobby or make all the clocks synced since like none were). Something as simple as naming each hallway and putting a sign up didn't even happen until I was in grade 11 lmao. No study hall thingy but in grade 12 if you got your credits right you could afford two "spares" and graduate, so like 1 a semester... Supposed to do work in caf or library or outside but if you leave school property supposed to sign out and back in not that anyone did because there was no attendance. First semester I had spare first period so I just didn't go in until like 10:25 usually (technically it is skipping). XD
What was special about it was it was an arts school (I was in general though). Basically excelled in english and arts department (lit, visual, dance, music and is sub categoreis, drama, dance). Plus there were specialized art programs for each thing in the arts department that elementary school students would have to apply and audition to get into in January of grade 8, and there isn't a spot for every applicant. So there were people who lived like an hour away or something as a result. Basically those in the arts program had enhanced art classes that you wouldn't get in other high schools and you would get a certificate on graduation.
Another result of that is 3 or 4 "Blockbuster Assemblies" a year which is like a bunch of performance acts put on by students that you could audition for or to host it. Kind of like talent shows I guess but with lots of talent.

My school operated with a 7-subject timetable, which is brilliant given New Zealand's qualification system (most other schools only do 5 or 6) as it maximises the number of credits available to students, however it does have the disadvantage that one can easily be spread too thin. It means that it's ridiculously easy to "pass", but it can be quite difficult to pass with high marks; it encourages students to aim low. If you pass, nothing else matters! Hooray! So my school ranked fairly fantastically among others for this reason but in reality the system is disturbingly flawed.

I'd usually wake up between 7:30 and 8am. School starts with Form Time (or a year-group assembly once per week) at 8:30; first period at 9:00; second period at 10:00; first break at 11:00; third period at 11:45; fourth period at 12:45; second break at 1:45; fifth period at 2:05 until school finishes at 3:05 (some of those periods are 65/60/55 minutes but it more or less works out like this).

So with 7 subjects and only 5 periods in a day, the timetable is needlessly confusing also, but it's one that you get used to after a while. Weeks are counted from the beginning of each term so the first week is odd week, second week even, and so on.

School of about 1800 students across 5 year levels; 100 staff; somewhere between 200-300 students in my final year.

Wow, we only have 220 students in our entire school, grades 8-12.
My schedule is:
A Block: 20th Century History
B Block: World Literature
C Block: Study Hall
D Block: Chemistry
E Block: Spanish 3
F Block: Geometry
H Block: Advanced Lab Tech

The schedule rotates so that we have about 3 hours of each class a week.

My school doesn't do block schedules.

My 2nd semester classes are:

1st- English 8
2nd- Physics
3rd- Economics
4th- AP Stats
5th- Asian Studies

Our school is on a block schedule and everyone seems to loathe it, I have no problem with it though. School starts at 8:30 and ends at 3:20 with a 30 minute lunch. On Wednesdays, classes begin at 10:00 rather than 8:30. I find it funny how there are so many get physical activity intiatives nowadays yet my school/state requires 1 PE credit all throughout high school. Im looking forward to a more flexible schedule next year in college.

I'll get up at 7:00, shower, eat, etc.
I'll walk about 20 minutes to school
My school is this interesting mix of upper middle class kids and lower class kids..due to an older richer part of my city being close to the downtown area which is really nice, you meet people you would never otherwise meet.
5 classes a day..45 minutes each..1 of those classes is a mandatory study period, attendance is taken but no one really cares if you don't go occasionally.
lunch is 75minutes, you can do whatever during it