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"...a building that smells like a combination of chalk dust, ammonia, and Mystery Meat."
Nate Wright describing P.S. 38[src]


P.S

P.S. 38 in 2009

P.S. 38 (Public School #38), is the school where most of the Big Nate comic strips take place. Nate is a sixth grade student at the school. The school is located in the fictional town of Rackleff, Maine, as it is not real. Nate does not like the school, as it is beaten up and old. The school is over 100 years old, and is three floors high. The mascot of P.S. 38 is the Bobcat, so the name of their sports teams are usually the P.S. 38 Bobcats. Their arch-rival is a school named Jefferson Middle School.

History[]

P.S. 38 opened on February 7, 1912, making it over 111 years old. It used to have wooden floors. Over the years, the school has gotten old, and beaten up. Paint started to peel, and problems occurred more frequently. Once, a piece of the roof fell on top of Nate. When a mural by folk artist Granny Peppers was discovered in the school, P.S. 38 sold it to a museum. The money they received was used for repairs on the school giving the school grey walls. The history of the school is revealed in the novel, Big Nate Lives it Up. Nate also hates it.

Facilities[]

  • Locker rooms
  • Classrooms
  • Restroom
  • Cafetorium
  • Gymnasium
  • Field
  • Library
  • Faculty Lounge
  • Student Lounge (converted from the photocopy room)
  • Parking/Faculty parking lot
  • Computer Lab
  • Detention Room

Clubs[]

See Also Category:Clubs at P.S. 38

Administration[]

Trivia[]

  • P.S. 38 is arch-rivals with Jefferson Middle School, another middle school in Nate's town. It is said that Jefferson is a sister institution of P.S. 38.
  • P.S. 38 could be based off a school in New York or California.
  • It is more than a 100 years old, as said in Big Nate: Lives It Up, which the school had a party and scavenger hunt for its 100th birthday.
  • P. S. 38 has been around since 1912 as seen in several comic strips.
  • Nate Wright once got hit by a falling ceiling tile in the school.
  • Nate has slipped on a wet floor once and tried to sue the school.
  • It had some much needed repair in Big Nate: Lives It Up.
  • Most of, if not all, of the Wright family have attended this school.
  • Their mascot, the Bobcat, is based off the mascot of Oyster River Middle School in Durham, New Hampshire, the school and town Lincoln Peirce went to and grew up.
  • There are a total of 213 students at P.S. 38 (As seen in the Guess that Baby)

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