I would say the high school I went to would be an executive elite school. Not so much for social class reasons, but for how the school was run and how the classes were taught. We were expected to do readings outside of class so we could discuss it the next day in class. Also teachers gave us the basic formula but we were allowed to expand on it and possibly find different ways of solving problems in science and math classes. And during some weeks, the teachers would expect us to teach the class by reading the material, developing a lesson plan and teaching the class. And we had to make sure we did a good job because the material we taught would end up on the next test. However, in grade school (1st - 4th) I would say I went to a working class school. The teachers wrote whatever was on the board and we copied it down. Spelling of words, math problems, definitions, etc. Whatever the teacher wrote down was deemed correct.