I tried to build a mini HIGHSCHOOLl! (The Sims 4 Highschool Years) 

I can't wait to make high schools with city living. You can add basketball courts, art classrooms, wood shop, all kids of stuff would be cool

the walking through security in american schools is a thing. i never had to at my high school but i had friends and cousins at other schools who did have do that, so it really just depends, unfortunately. some schools even make it a rule you have to have a clear see through backpack so everyone can see what you're carrying as well

This pack is perfect for creating the high school that every Disney/Nick teen went to in the early 2000s. The original school is pretty realistic but I love your version of the school!

I actually like that it is smaller - it looks more playable and less empty.

It's so fun seeing everyone's take on school! My school was the queen's old summer house, it was originally a private school turnt public school on the seafront in the UK! It had the huge stairways going up to the principles office, a big bell tower with spiral stairs abd the original ballroom that had the huge bay windows facing the grounds was even there! So a very different type of school setting than most, especially being right on the seafront 😊

The idea of building a high school seems so daunting. I’ll definitely draw ideas from other builds At all of my schools growing up the cafeterias were near the front but in their own enclosed space. Also what on earth goes on in schools in Australia? Jumping off stairs, destroying plants, mooning people out windows?? 😂

When you were talking about making the school more secure it made me a bit emotional.... I'm hoping and praying that someday American schools won't have to be built with shooters in mind, and that someday thinking of schools won't send my mind straight to some kind of horrible tragedy. I know policies are complicated and Australia is a totally different country and culture, but.... God bless all of you and your commitment to protecting children. I pray that someday we'll do the same in America.

Amazing school, but it definitely needed a workout room for the cheerleaders and the football team, and showers for when they are finished with their workout. A room for the chess club would have been appropriate as well. But yeah... LOVED the idea of making the school smaller as the default school is DEFINITELY too big 😂🤣😂

I love how your school feels more like a school for everyone, whereas the ones we're getting with the pack looks more elite. Gives it more variety... The fact we can actually build our own.

Seeing that you are able to customize your own high school, I think Get to Work is going to be the next pack they update!! They can fix world and add the hospital etc. to actually lots!!!!!

I can’t wait to see the future hogwarts builds that the community will make! Also, I really wish there wasn’t so much Art Deco. I want to see more basic traditional choices.

Australian schools are great 😂 97% of my school was original building built back in 1703 and the other 3% was new and was so oddly over technical. It didn't match at all 😂 I wish we had cafeterias, we just had a tuck shop with chocolate ice mony's and pizza pockets. They were fire though 🤤

Also in Australia schools are usually lots of buildings instead of one big building so you have to go outside and walk between the classrooms.

Nothing like waking up to a Deli upload! Let’s start my day off right 💁🏻‍♀️

I'm just outside Chicago, my son graduated high school in 2017 and his school DID have security things to go through when they first walked in. It's disgusting that life is second to guns in this country.

My high school (In the US, Ohio to be specific) was designed and built in the 1980’s, and was very modern for the time. A lot of glass and open air (and it’s an eighth of a mile - or 660 feet/201 meters long) - which would be great if it wasn’t in an area where tornadoes are common. In order to get to the tornado shelters we had to walk through a hallway that was nicknamed “The Fishbowl” because it was entirely glass on both sides with one side on the exterior of the building. During a tornado if the glass broke it would have turned into “The Blender”.

Plants were very common decoration in my school, they would put plants everywhere especially on a way to principal office and every class room had a world map. Basically only decoration school could think of was either plants or world map 😂

I live in England and my high school is quite big but we have different buildings for different subjects. Most of it is quite traditional but it’s been added to throughout the years so a few bits are quite modern. Love this❤❤

I didn’t see your school up on the gallery… I think it would be great to use the smaller high school as they seem to say copperdale is a small family town. It fits the theme perfectly love how you made this high school.

We didn't have any walk through security at our school, that's more in the bigger city schools. The cafeteria in elementary school doubled as the gym. The tables would be put away after lunch. In High school, the cafeteria was right as you entered the building. It was like a large lobby with tables set up in it. Funny, I can't imagine a school without a cafeteria...lol

So glad the computers and laptops ended up going into the build, as the video was going on I was like the chess club and computer club have no where or no items for use for their club (the sports I imagine would be outside on the field area) I can imagine the chess club and computer club use the little library as their club gathering space which is cute ❤ x

This looks so amazing and much more accessible than the huge one the pack is shipped with. Don't get me wrong I like the style of the official high school but it's just way too cavernous. This one is so cute, I can't wait to download it. The only thing it's missing is a gym for the football/cheer teams and I kinda feel like the computer and chess teams also deserve their own rooms. Maybe you could add those too before you're able to upload it to the gallery? There are four activity teams and I think all of them deserve their own spaces, like you did with the cheer space outside. Also, I'm unreasonably excited for this pack, it looks so freaking good.

I am rapidly realizing how bizarre my high school experience was as an American to the rest of the world. I just went to research the building plans of the high school I went to was built in 1962. 2/3 of the building is built underground and doubles as the city's fallout shelter. It is a bizarre v shape above ground & a y shape below ground. In researching my school I found out that apparently they tore it down in 2019 because it was just loaded with asbestos.

Highkey the exterior looks a LOT like my middle school did. I feel like mini schools make sense with the spawn limitations. Having

In Sweden, we get lunch for free. It's a proper meal every day. We never have to bring food to school except for when we are small, then we sometimes bring a snack (like fruit) or when we go on a field trip. It's the law to serve food in school every day.

So interesting to hear about your schools. I’m from America and my highschool was huge, it was two connected buildings, the old building and the new building called the freshman building. They were connected by a large curved hallway. Both buildings were three stories (not including the basement that was just storage and maintenance). Our cafeteria was huge and we had a school store that sold snacks during non lunch periods for students in study halls. We had two auditoriums, a soccer feild, tennis courts, baseball stadium, and football stadium. And we had three gyms, one small one, one large one, and one only for wrestling.

I find it so interesting that schools in the US are in one big building. Most schools I’ve seen here in Australia are smaller buildings/blocks on the school grounds with lots of outdoor space connecting the buildings. Sooo different!

Beautiful build. Aussie High schools have plants in staffrooms, public spaces like front office and classrooms. Not in corridors or near lockers etc as you are right, students dont really respect them. Love your Australian flavoured builds. As a fellow Aussie I find it inspires me to put Aussie things in game.that brick you chose is just such a classic school coloured brick for me.

I thought I was the only one asked to leave class for an uncontrollable laughing fit! I was one of those kids who was never in trouble, so the teacher knew I wasn’t being difficult on purpose, so they just had me go stand in the hallway to get ahold of myself. I don’t even know what was so funny!

At my school we didn't have to go through security but we had police in the school at all times. The front entrance was around our locker area and the back entrance was by the cafeteria! I loved this school! You did an amazing job Deli!

It would of been really cute if they also added water fountains where students bladders would go down just like when any other sims drink other beverages. And as an add on our sims can splash each other with water and get in trouble from the principle. Overall, I’m so excited to build with this pack as I can definitely relate that Australian schools don’t have those fancy cafeteria but more like canteen takeaway blocks. The other thing is the lot is big enough to have seperate buildings I think realistically (not sure if same applies to America or else where) in Australia we have different building blocks like block A or B for different class sections like science, arts or music.

I have never seen security at a Canadian high school before. I, too, have only seen it on television and movies from the States. We do commonly have indoor plants in our schools, though. Two of the public elementary schools that I went to actually had courtyards and conservatories that were full of plants. The conservatory was quite large, actually. Regarding cafeterias, in my experience in Canada there are definitely cafeterias in high schools here, but they are different from what I have seen from Hollywood. Here, the cafeterias that I have been in have just basically been large rooms with tables and seating for students to sit and eat at. There are no food lines like there are in American film, but there are often small restaurants (or one restaurant), like a mall food court, that are contracted to offer food, but many students bring their own lunches.

I live in California and most of our schools are similar to what you explained Aussie schools are like; most of them were built a couple decades ago, and new modern buildings and renovations are added over time.

In New Zealand my high school was super spread out over the hill side in lots of smaller buildings and we had to constantly face the weather to get between classes. I do love this exploration of other high school experiences, definitely replacing the default build with yours.

I went to a public high school in Australia, the only year I had lockers outside was year 10 and it was so far away from all my classes 😩 we also had a double story building in year 11 and 12 for the seniors. Year 9 there was massive stairs up to the building and of course all the boys would be messing around on it (it gave me broke gossip girl vibes sitting on those steps) 😂

We didn't have security per say at my school, but we had lots of locks. The front door was unlocked at the start and end of the day, but otherwise you had to be buzzed in by the office through a security camera outside. After being buzzed in you enter an entry way that had two lowered metal bar gates (literally a jail lmao) that stopped people from entering the halls. You would have to go through the main office. The office door inside had a magnetic lock that the front desk would release to let you into the office, then they would have to do that again at a second door to let you into the hallways. There is also a cop that patrols the hallways and is based in the school.

My high school was built in 1959 in the Modernist style. The outside of the one you made reminds me of it, although it was a lot smaller than my school. My school was huge as it was the second largest in my state. And we also had "portables" which were extra classrooms put into the outside area after the school was finished. They were meant to be temporary but they were still there even a couple of decades after I graduated.

This is a gorgeous school! New York USA, Cafeterias are literally anywhere. We had two, a satellite cafeteria and the main cafeteria… no clue why

My school (I'm from Australia) is made of four 2 story blocks that are connected by paths and in 2 of them a bridge on the second story, we have technically 3 ovals (1 of them was a "football" feild, a cricket pitch, an art cottage, 4 basketball courts, 2 outside, 1 in the hall and 1 in the old hall, 2 hockey fields, 4 soccer goals, the dance studios, a COLA, and an undercover area where the food stall is. We also had 2 elevators installed and ramps put in everywhere when I started year 7 because a disabled person started going to my school that year.

Been teaching HS for a very long time. There are many potential layouts but here's the general: 1) Main offices are near the front entrance for security as they control who gets in and easy access for parents though assistant principals may be nearer to classrooms in case help is needed. 2) Cafeterias are centrally located so no one has to go far and often double as meeting areas for activities or to hang out during breaks... TVs are often on the walls there to show school news and other things. 3) Showers are near the gym for obvious reasons often with locker rooms for changing like at spas. 4) Some gyms have a stage for drama or graduation if the school doesn't have an auditorium. A few even have pools for swim teams. 5) While it's iconic... most schools have done away with lockers for security reasons. Kids often just carry a laptop so there's not as books... but lockers have a function in the game so I guess they are needed. We took lockers out of our school over 20 years ago. 6) A lot of high schools have an outdoor courtyard for kids to hang out. We even have one for seniors only as something special for them. 7) And yes by law we have special disabled bathrooms... these are also offered for those that for one reason or another aren't comfortable in the designated gendered bathrooms. Then there are staff bathrooms as you don't want adults in the kids bathrooms. 8) Glad you were thinking about colors. There's a whole study about what colors are uplifting but calming. Some students can't handle overly complicated color patterns... such as those with autism. BUT PLEASE put some aquariums, plants... even small pets in one classroom. It's really great for kids.

My high school in Pennsyvania had showers (no stalls) off the gym. You get sweaty in gym class and they require you to shower before boing back to class. There was a monitor that checked off if you showered as it was part of your gym grade. Showers were deffinity needed for the boys after they played baseball as they stank. I was lucky my gym class was usually either last class of the day or I study hall after so showers weren't as monitored.

20:19 My school had a commons/cafeteria in the central area. So you would have the main office, then the commons area/cafeteria would be back to it. I love this build, I have always been fascinated with school, and seeing a game pack/build like this really makes me happy.

i love how the cafeteria is literally in the entrance.

Does anyone know if this school is available for download? I really like how small and simple it is.

I’m so excited your redoing the highschool because once I saw EA highschool I was like ehhhhh

It's so interesting to see how different schools are everywhere! The school I went to was build in 1880 so.. it's very different from every other school in my country lol! It's a huge 3 story building, I could never recreate it in the sims. I really liked your build, seems like it could be a really fancy private school (at least where i live!) haha cant wait to download it!

I honestly wasn’t even excited for this pack until seeing this build. Now I can’t wait

This reminds me so much of my high school. It was an art deco mansion built in the 30s and then it got renovated in like the 70s and it has all of those bright colors and fun shapes and it’s wonderful.

My highschool in Australia was blond brick and lots of portables and it was split between junior yrs 7-10 and senior yrs 11-12. On the senior side it was dark red brick building making a central courtyard "quadrangle" It was a mismatch of styles reflecting years of gradual renovation and add ons

I went to school in Florida. My high school was a single story, sprawling building with no windows except on the office and 2 math rooms at the back of the school. We had a separate building for the cafeteria and a two story building that had all the history classes for some reason. We didn't have to go through security or anything back then, but it wouldn't surprise me if they had to now. It was super old and gross. I can't imagine going to a school that had funds to renovate or upkeep the campus lol. Our school spent all their money on sports.

This is more like Canadian schools... Still a bit fancy, but way more believable. Love the learning centre in the top you did. Here our cafeterias are just an eating place (you don't really get food there, just bring it). Some schools have some food to buy, but it'd just be packaged snacks. The school I teach at has one in the basement. Most others I've been in are somewhat close to the front of the school, but definitely in a new room. (the school I went to in grade 12 had a cafeteria that doubled as an "auditorium", since it had a stage in it... You just had to set up stairs and stuff for assemblies). What's interesting is that the school politics in Australia and Canada are also very similar to each other! Love the build. :)

I LOVE how you did the exterior shape with the roofing 😍😍😍

In my high school in Aus, we had stairs all over the place since we were built on a hill. Kids would slide down railings and hang over the edges. It was definitely not safe.

I’m Australian =) So I went to school in a two story series of buildings; they basically divided subjects up by building and level. The exterior staircases were concrete and had a platform/resting point at the midway because the classrooms were super tall. I remember it was like 12-14 steps on the lower part of the staircase and 8-10 on the upper part. We ABSOLUTELY tried to jump from the top of the stairs to the mid-landing point, and then from the midpoint to the ground. We also absolutely stacked it and fell down….but we were all made of rubber apparently and I don’t know of anyone that broke anything. I also know of a guy who just decided to jump over the concrete half wall they had as railings around the upper level instead of using the stairs. He landed fine and continued on his way like nothing happened. This was northwest of Sydney, about a 2 hour direct train ride from Darling Harbour. So not in the main city itself, but not super far out either.

This is such a great and realistic American high school! Obviously it is smaller than any school I've attended, it works perfectly. The only thing, and it is a nonissue, is that the first floor classroom might complain about noise coming from the main entrance/cafeteria area but this is the Sims. I agree that the principal's desk needs to be fixed too, haha.

Deli making James sound effects when she is stressed about the soap is the cutest thing ever🥹😂

I live in the US in the south. Our school lunches are government funded so everyone can eat for free but it’s kind of gross food and you don’t get a choice of foods, you have to eat what is served. And as far as security, the front doors have to be buzzed in by the office so they know if someone is there and most but not all junior/high schools the kids have to walk through metal detectors but not necessarily security. This is normal lunch and security for most public school anyway. I always love learning about other countries so I though I would tell you a little about it here.

13:45 We actually had yellow walls in some of our middle schools bathrooms. Nobody I knew liked them.

I would love to see the auditorium/prom updated by you also !!!! :)

Something my school had that I never saw on movie schools were mud/cloak rooms. Between two classrooms would be a small room with a door to the outdoors. Everyone would keep their snow pants/hats/mittens/muddy boots in this room hung up on hooks during school hours. Lockers were still in the hallways in front of the classes. But on snowy/rainy/muddy days students usually wouldn't go in through the main front doors and track mud into the school, we'd all go in the back doors to our classrooms.

I live in Germany and our School was in a historical kinda castley building. Very nice to see schools from other countries .

I’m excited to put a gym with a proper basketball court inside and out 😍 It’s a big enough lot lol. Use that space! Cannot wait for cross pack compatibility

This looks more like a private school then a state school

Even my small high school was about this big. There was a hugggge central cafeteria called the “commons” which was where we ate and also the central hub to the school. When I saw this I thought omg this is like the movies !!! And it literally was. It was where we hung out. All the tables were cliqued up! It’s where a lot of fights and drama went down. I’m so grateful for my hs experience. It was def like the movies. I went to middle school with 21 savage and high school with his manager mega man and he made music during high school and one of the songs went on the radio! We used to sing it at pep rallies which were huge parties before a game. Man I wanna make a story time video talking about my high school days lol. Def gonna make sure my daughter goes to a school as 🔥 as mine was !!!! Super important

I've actually built a high-school for Newcrest, I can't wait to go back in and revamp it with this pack.

In my school we just had a separate room for the cafeteria which was in Building 1. Then there was a commons area in the entrance of building 2 where we could eat during lunch if we wanted.

My high school was 3 stories with a basement. Then the skill center was in the back. That was basically its own building, only one floor. 3x a month we had random police check with metal detectors. I love your builds and your voice🥰

As a teacher, this is so cool! My favorite part will be to personalize and decorate the classrooms!

Deli I LOVE this. The outside is really nice and the layout of the high school as well. Great work ❤️

Although I was born and raised in a US territory I didn't have any schooling within the actual US/North American system so I don't know what that school experience is like. Your build does remind me of some of the buildings at my University campus though, especially the technology/communications/graphic design buildings, which makes sense since that's your major!

Love this building! It looks so much more realistic for me as a European as well… in most schools here, there’s no cafetaria either. We bring our own food from home. Lots of schools are in old historic buildings (like the one I used to go to), but we also have a lot of modernised school buildings especially when you go outside the bigger cities.

wow the vibes of this school are so cool! I love this build so much! :D I can see this being real~

truly fascinated that both deli and james put carpet in their school builds, is that common in australia?? ive never seen a school with carpeting, some classrooms when i was in elementary school had rugs on the floor but not permanently installed carpeting. every school ive gone to (elementary all the way to college/university) has had nearly the same linoleum tiles!

At my school we had an array of stairs, including a concrete outdoor set dubbed 'The Spanish Steps'. Yes, kids did try to trip eachother on the stairs

It's interesting to see how different the school system is from a country to an other. Most kids in France goes to school cantine, of course it's not free but the price depends on your parents income most of the time(public schools of course).

Great build. LOVE to see the accessibility representation! Thank you!

On the note of walking through security to get into school, I grew up in a pretty typical suburb in western New York State, in elementary and middle school (k-8th grade) we didn’t have security (2000-2010ish) in high school we didn’t have metal detectors but they would bring in drug dogs to search and the building was locked during the day requiring you to be buzzed in with an intercom once classes were going on. In contrast the nearby city schools had metal detectors at the entrance when I was in high school.

the school in the city near my town has metal detectors that everyone has to walk through, they have school ids (I know that's more normal in some places but I never had one) that have to be shown when entering, then they also have to have those like handheld scanners used on everyone. and all of this was put in place bc kids kept sneaking weapons in and trying to kill each other. this was also the high school, I don't know about like the middle and elementary school. then you've got the school I went to where the most "security" we had was you had to be buzzed in to the school and we had an SRO that occasionally left their office.

We used to hang out under the stairs in my high school there were huge stairs in the entrance. And there was like a sunken sitting area on the backside underneath them that we called the fish pond. And that’s where we would hang out in between classes and at lunch

I realize how cool my school is. Every locker is painted with artwork from the towns known artist. Tons of plants and windows into every classroom. And colorful floors, sofas, pride flags (and not only for pride month)And the biggest stairs ever that everyone could sit in

I live in the Netherlands, and my school has some plants here and there. There is a GIANT one in the lunch area, but it has spikes. And once one of my friends hid my bike keys in the plant, but I didn't know it had spikes, so I just stuck my hand in there, so I spent the rest of the day picking out spikes from my hand XD. But that was like 3 years ago XD

Yeah, we had more and more security, and I graduated in 09'. I remember running through halls and stairs just to get to my next class lol, like a half mile. And you know, we had the school shooter drill, fire drills... It became common for randos to also make fake bomb threats so here and there we would evacuate the school. I hated how the random fire drills would be when it was 32 freaking degrees out and having to leave class to go outside. A lot of us didn't have warm clothing on (unless you had a hoodie on) and I couldn't go to my locker for a coat lol. I don't miss high school...

Walking straight into school into the cafeteria is insane😂😂😂😂 still better than anything I could build though. I like it.

In Sweden the lunch has been for several years. (From when I started until o graduated and beyond and im 40) free. So you had like usually 1 option and later on when vegetarian food was more common 2 options. So no children had to go hungry no matter their parents economy.

I think you should make a high school series. I'd enjoy watching that.

I think your school could use a teachers lounge and a teacher/ principals only bathroom. At my school in Jamaica we had a canteen and we could buy or take our own lunches and sit and eat, but we didn't have trays, we also had vending machines too.

Nothing is better than when you upload!! I love learning new things .

I like seeing schools from different places in the world! It's even pretty different depending on the province or state or town you're in!

You didnt have a gymnasium at your school? Maybe have a pool and basketball courts. One high school I went to had an olympic style pool area, one huge pool with raised walkways separating it into three sections, it could be used for high diving to lane racing or water polo. Also had an archery range.

My (German) school had sooo many stairs. Even the same stories had different levels connected with stairs. Sometimes I still dream about the school building (I graduated more than ten years ago) and how many stairs it had lol The school itself wasn't even that big.

seeing her put down the bricks made me think of how good a modern style school with the eco lifestyle wood walls would look

I love it, i downloaded a huge highschool which caused my sim to only reach class the last 10 min until it was finished

Yes deli it strange to walk into a school straight into a cafeteria…..usually u walk into a hall that has the front office and the principal office lol

Love the idea of a smaller build! Definitely better for gameplay. And this is so cute! I love that you managed to make it colorful while still being restful.

I saw the vending machines, and it inspires me to put some death traps in my high school lol. I'm thinking I can use the deadly vending machines from Snowy Escape, rodents for rodent fever, and cowplants 😈

I definitely am going to download this for the main building and I will add all the basketball courts and stuff like that too

I work in American public education. Our two lower campuses in town (elementary and middle school) both have their cafeterias in a central location, where our junior high and high school are on the same grounds, and share a cafeteria so it is an independent building located centrally on the campus. I think it's a little different everywhere. I will say the building you built looks very similar to a lot of the older high schools around where I live (think 70's and 80's as the older buildings) there's a lot of buildings being done currently in my state.

The US is so different not just state by state but town by town. We had to show our student IDs to walk in but no metal detectors, and they only checked our bags on Valentine’s Day because it was the anniversary of a shooting in our state (yes, Florida). My rival high school was in a rougher area and they did have metal detectors. I wouldn’t call it the norm, but not necessarily uncommon. Also I went to 2 high schools growing up because I moved and the first one didn’t require IDs and all exterior doors were unlocked and totally open throughout the day.

All we need now is a Primary school pack and an option to open a daycare from home! Also your school is super cute😍

Your comment about having to walk through security in high schools really hit me hard. When I graduated back in 1988 we didn't have the security systems like they do now. When my daughter graduated some years later, it was rather heartbreaking to see the changes that had to be made just to keep students safe. I am so thankful that real life violence (other than the obvious fist fight) has never made its way into Sims.