ABSTRACT
Most students in the United States attend relatively large public schools; the focus thus far has been primarily on such schools. This chapter looks at schools that are atypical in some respect: military academies, a school for the upper classes, public schools in small towns, schools on small military bases, and religiouslyoriented schools. The point is to look for schools in which the pattern of status relations among students might be different from those that we have considered so far.
