Sobu High School

The main entrance of Sobu High School.

Sobu High School is the generic high school setting in which the series takes place. It is modeled on Inage Senior High School in Chiba. Most of the characters work or go to school here.

Academics

It was mentioned that the entrance requirements are quite high. Those who wish to gain admittance are required to score highly on the entrance exams or receive a recommendation from good junior high schools. The entrance exams are held on a single day in February. The entire school gets a day-off except for the faculty.

According to Hachiman, Sobu teaches the "big 5", Japanese, English, Social Sciences (Liberal Arts), Mathematics and Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Biology). It also has various forms of Art, Sports, Music and Home Economics classes for 9 total.

Second year students are required to fill out a career survey for help with their future. Later they will choose either Liberal arts or Sciences to focus on for their third year classes.

Most schools post results of exams on a billboard within school grounds. Sobu High, however, does not, instead the teachers tell its students about their ranking and score in person.

Dress Code

EP3 Athletic Shoes — Yukino's Athletic Shoes

Sobu High has three uniforms it allows its students wear. A summer outfit, winter outfit, and athletic outfit. The uniform has brown outdoor shoes, colour coded indoor shoes with an X stitching, and colour coded athletic shoes that has two vertical lines on the side.

Colour Code

Light Novel

In Volume 1 its said when wearing a normal school outfit, girls in each grade wear a colour coded ribbon to identify themselves. A red ribbon meant the student is in second year. The ribbon colours are never mentioned again.

However, in Volume 3 its mentioned the students also have colour coded indoor shoes and the first years wear yellow ones. The third year colour is unknown.

Anime

In the anime both Iroha (first year) and Meguri (third year) are shown to be wearing a red ribbon along with the second years.

In the anime the students indoor and athletic shoes match their athletic outfit colours. Red is worn by first years, green is worn by second years, and blue is worn by third years.

Summer Outfit

EP3 Uniforms — Kakeru is not wearing the uniform to code

The summer outfit is a simple white collared shirt, black jacket with white trim, and black pants or red plaid skirt. The boys outfit includes a tie, and the girls wear a ribbon around their necks. Many of the students do not wear the neckpiece. Since the summer is very hot, many students disregard the jacket, and girls roll up their skirt so its shorter/airier.

Winter Outfit

The winter outfit is the exact same, the only difference being an additional cream coloured vest and a much larger navy blue overcoat for insulation.

Athletic Outfit

The athletic outfit is colour coded, but it does not match the Light Novel ribbon colour. It is a two-tone track suit with athletic shoes. Saika wears his athletic outfit year round. He also has his own special athletic shoes.

Club Outfit

Sobu's sports teams have a white and purple track suit. Most noticeably seen being worn by the tennis club.

Location

The school is located in Chiba city. The school building is situated near the sea. Because of the tide, the wind would change direction around noon.

Facilities

Special Building

The special building is connected to the main building by an uncovered walkway and a breezeway between buildings. It houses many of the clubrooms for the school, including the Service Club.

Home Economics Room

EP1 Sobu Home Ec Room — Home Economics Room

A large room with many cooking stations.

Conference room

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Athletic festival

The school has a conference room for various activities. It is used as the planning room for the Culture and Athletic festivals. It is mentioned to be the size of two regular classrooms and gaudy seats and tables were inside. There is a white board bolted to the wall for writing.

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The conference room has a large "U" shaped table with the open end of the table facing the whiteboard. There are extra tables at the sides. And another near the whiteboard for presenters.

Staff Room

The looks like a standard open office space consisting of joint tables with small partitions and desks for each teacher. Each teacher has personalized their desk to some degree. Shizuka often leaves her cigarettes on her desk.

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There is also a consultation section for teachers to interact with their students. This appears to be a smoking area as Shizuka often smokes while she deals with Hachiman. (Smoking indoors is not as frowned upon as it is in North America. However this is changing.)

Library

A medium sized library with low shelves and several tables for students.

Student Council Room

Meguri Zoku Opening — Meguri in Student council room in the opening theme.

It is a small office room. It consists of a table, desk. and several chairs for its members. It also has a number of shelves for files and folders. A school laptop is kept here for council business. Later Iroha installed a Halogen heater and refrigerator.

Bicycle Parking

Sobu provides covered parking for students and staff that ride their bicycles to school.

Sports Facilities

Sobu is mentioned to be academically focused and none of its sports teams are very good.

Athletic Field - It is a large dirt field, yet not big enough for multiple sports teams. The soccer club, baseball club, track and field, and the rugby club all share the space. The Athletic Festival Bo-Taoshi event was held here.
Tennis Courts
Indoor Gymnasium

Staff

Shizuka Hiratsuka - Modern Japanese Teacher, Homeroom Teacher for class 2-F, Service Club Adviser.
Tsurumi Sensei - Home Economics Teacher.
Atsugi - Physical Education Teacher.
Unnamed Biology Teacher

Clubs & Student Council

Student council

President: Iroha Isshiki (Current), Meguri Shiromeguri (Previous)
Unnamed Vice-President
Unnamed Secretary
Unnamed Treasurer

Clubs

Tennis Club
- Known Member: Saika Totsuka (President)

Soccer Club
- Manager: Iroha Isshiki
- Known Members: Hayato Hayama (Ace Player, Captain, President), Kakeru Tobe

Rugby Club
- Known Members: Yamato
Baseball Club
- Known Members: Ooka
Girls Basketball Club
- Known Members: Haruka, Yukko
Judo Club
- Known Members: Shiroyama (President), Tsukui, Fujino
UG Club (United Gamers)
- Known Members: Sagami (not Minami), Hatano
Service Club
- Advisor: Shizuka Hiratsuka
- Members: Hachiman Hikigaya, Yui Yuigahama, and Yukino Yukinoshita (President)
Track and Field
Ping Pong
Boys Basketball

Classes

Sobu has 30 classes, 10 for each year. Each class is represented by a letter from A-J. The last class "J" of each year is reserved for the international curriculum students. It is considered an advanced class for exceptional students.

Class 1-C (Known Student: Iroha Isshiki)
Class 2-C (Known Student: Yoshiteru Zaimokuza) - Performed a play based on Zaimokuza's script for the Culture Festival.
Class 2-E - Constructed a roller coaster for the Culture Festival.
Class 2-F (Known Students: Hachiman Hikigaya, Yui Yuigahama, Saki Kawasaki, Hayato Hayama, Saika Totsuka, Yumiko Miura, Minami Sagami, Hina Ebina, Kakeru Tobe, Ooka, Yamato) - Performed a musical show written by Ebina for the Culture Festival.
Class 2-J (Known Student: Yukino Yukinoshita) - International Curriculum. Is 90% Female class. Performed a fashion show for the Culture Festival.
3-B - Constructed a "trolley guided museum" for the Culture Festival. They later "illegally" turned it into a roller coaster to attract more people.
3-E - Held an open petting zoo using house pets for the Culture Festival.

Activities

2nd Year Workplace tour - There are survey forms used to determine the occupation students are interested in learning more about and then the school allows students to visit the most popular workplace choices.
Cultural Festival - Held every year at the end of summer.
Athletic Festival - Held every year, sometimes in the summer. Sobu does theirs in Autumn.
2nd Year trip - The seconds years go on an overnight trip in November.
School Marathon - Held near the end of winter, in early February or late January.