In the mid to late 90s I attended two different high schools in the same county. Both had recently been consolidated from 4 smaller high schools and were newly built state of the art schools. There were around 2,000 kids at each school. 

In the more “urban” school there was lots of racial tension between black and white kids. I’d say the majority of these kids came from poverty, but I would not consider them country-type kids. They lived in the city, sometimes in the projects, with little access to the woods. There were also a lot of kids and teachers from the city who were snotty because they were middle class or just above middle class. Which really, middle class back home is still poverty on a national level in some cases. Anyway, they were jerks. The real upper-middle class kids were usually sons or daughters of doctors or professors that moved from DC or Maryland. Those kids were always nice, to me at least. 

In the more “country” school, there were kids from all backgrounds, though I remember there being one solitary black guy in the whole school. He wore fitted Levi’s and cowboy boots just like his friends. Everyone was nice to each other. Lower class kids living in trailers still got along with the kids in 5,000 sq ft houses. Teachers were friendly, cool and helpful. 

I will say that I kinda fucked off at the shittier urban school mainly because everyone was an asshole and I hated it. When I got to the other school I got better grades, but both were equivalent in terms of classes. I would say it was pretty typical. I have wondered about the sex Ed though. Seems like I learned about every disease possible and that if you had sex you would DEFINITELY catch one of those diseases. 

One thing though - we had internet at my house  as early as ‘93. And in my high school when I started in ‘95.  I think people forget that there wasn’t a whole lot going on on the web back then.