Togo High School

I think it may be difficult to comprehend such a small school if you've only gone to large schools your entire life.  I graduated from a small high school, but not one as small as Togo.  There's about twenty students in each grade at Togo High School.  So, that makes about eighty students altogether enrolled in Togo High School.  That's it.  In Alaska, there are a lot smaller schools.  In fact, there are places where there are no schools at all and any kids in the area must be homeschooled, whether they like it or not.  But, I digress.
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Like the real town of Seward, Alaska, a lot of Togo was swept away by the Tsunami triggered by the 1964 earthquake.  Learn more about that here-   1964 Alaska Earthquake  Afterwards, the townfolk rebuilt, including Togo High School, but nothing new was built since.  This makes the school over fifty years old.
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The school is built of gray cinderblock and have what the rest of America would consider antique chalkboards, desks, and such.  There are two large buildings.  The main building is two-story and holds most of the classrooms.  The other one holds the gym and the rest of the classrooms.  A breezeway, a covered sidewalk, connects the two.  The teacher's parking lot is on one side and the student parking lot is on the street side, along with a couple of picnic tables and a statue of the school mascot, the Tundra Wolf. 
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The Tundra Wolf is the official name of a subspecies of gray wolf in Northern Europe, but the founders of the school just named the mascot that because there's lots of wolves around Togo and there's tundra.  Follow this link to learn more about the real thing-   Wolves in Alaska   My daughter keeps nagging me to put werewolves in these stories and I'm like, "Why?  We got plenty of real wolves here in Alaska.  Why do we need werewolves?"  She says its just 'cause they're cool.  Oookay.  There is a wolf pack in the stories, in fact, who do play an active role and could be considered sentient.  They come into the story because of Adrian, the hero, who has a special connection with all animals.
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Togo High School's colors are red and black.  The school has three major social events each year, Homecoming in September, the Christmas Dance, and the Prom in May.  Sports include Football, Hockey, and Track, plus cheerleading.  There are a few extracurricular clubs.  Bianca always makes all the costumes for the Drama Club and Ophelia is president of the Computer Club.  As freshmen, Ophelia was sorted into all college prep classes while Bianca remained in regular classes.  This is why they have no classes together, even though they are twins and the school is so small.
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Right now, I'm looking forward to sending Ophelia and Bianca to a huge Lower 48 school at the end of the next novel, Sugar Baby, after attending this tiny school.  It's gonna be a major 'fish out of water' scene!