While walking in the school’s hallways, many students have complained of the crammed atmosphere. Rosemount High School students and teachers can all agree that stairwells B and C are horrible to try and get down, as well as the second floor hallway. Although the hallways have been worse, this year is the worst the school has seen yet.

Principal Pete Roback explains that in the 2021 to 2022 school year, we tried to incorporate one way stairwells. “Let me just say, mixed results.” Roback says. Many students tried to apply the one way stairwell rule for a few weeks but after that, no one followed the rule. As soon as one upperclassman went the wrong way, multiple underclassmen then proceeded to follow fastly. 

A big factor to the hallways being crowded is the amount of students we have in our school. With District 196 changing its boundaries, the number of students attending Rosemount has decreased in numbers, but they still have 2,300 students. The High School was built in 1918 which shows this school isn’t made for thousands of students. All of Rosemounts rivalry schools have more classrooms, bigger hallways, and in general, more space.

Sebastian Marchese, a junior here at Rosemount exclaimed that, “Between every hour it’s like you’re sitting in a line at Valley Fair trying to get down that hallway and that stairwell.” Many other students feel the same way he does. Keertana Addagudi, a senior at Rosemount High School explained that “It feels like you have no personal space.”

Principal Roback has a plan in place for this dilemma. “I’ve actually met with architects and engineers as we’ve looked at different needs of our building and one of the biggest needs we have are these hallways.” Roback declares. “It’s pretty hard just to take an existing hallway in a school and make it wider, but you can make stairwells wider.” Roback also explains that he hasn’t seen formal set plans for making the stairways bigger but that it is definitely a discussion being brought up in each meeting. Hopefully Rosemount can fix this problem for the thousands of new students to come.