Question And my head is gouging out the ceiling

I was working on a scene and got thinking: how high are the ceilings at the school? Dose Slab risk taking out the lights when he goes to class? Are some areas lower then others or is everything a minimum height?

I think that very few students are taller than, say, your typical high school basketball player. Taller than average, sure, but not troublesomely tall. They might have to stoop a bit on doors and such. But then, there is Fire Forge, who IS tall enough to be a problem (it appears to be the main reason why she is in Hawthorne).
I don't remember Slab being abnormally tall, but he might be wider than usual. But he wouldn't be the one to really cause concerns regarding doorway width. There are several wheelchair-bound students, for starters, and they would require wider doors. And then there are students like Antenna, who need extra side room due to that "giant baby walker" rig he wears...

I have a relative who got NBA tall during his teens, and he has a bit of trouble with doors and light fixtures, but most rooms are high enough that his head does not stand the risk of hitting the ceiling -- and Brazilians are on average a bit shorter than USAns, so I would expect that your typical US building would be less problematic than your typical Brazilian building. The real problems he had were with clothing, particularly shoes... and beds. Both of which would be easy for Whateley to address. I expect that the legacy buildings (the ones that date from the old non-mutant Whateley school) have regular height (and width) doorways and ceilings, but renovated buildings would have larger doors, and newer buildings higher ceilings, to address oversize students.

Whateley is an old school, and unlike modern schools will likely have higher rooms and corridoors.
Low ceilings are a modern idea.

Your average house ceiling is 8'. Every school I have ever been in is higher. Usually about 12' ceilings. Add in that most schools use fluorescent lights that are flush with the ceilings and you really mitigate the height issue. If we then assume that WA made some allowances for the truly abnormally tall then I would suspect there is even less of an issue.

Now, the old buildings from before the mutant school might be an issue. But even there I don't recall many dorms having ceilings that were not at least 8'. Many were higher (which allowed for bunk beds with less chance of head smashing). I want to think most were at least 10' as there was no hope of me changing a bulb while standing in a chair, so they were certainly more than 8'... Though it is possible that some of the cottages could have been built according to more residential standards.

Also remember that the older the building, the higher the ceilings will be. There was no air conditioning when they were built, so the hot air was sent to the higher ceilings and away from the occupants. Just like turn of the 20th century homes.

I think some of the oldest building in my high school had 20' ceilings. The newer buildings had 12' to 10' high rooms.

I would tend to agree, but then again, some older buildings were built with low ceilings. The high ceiling thing works both ways. They help in the summer, but are a real pain in the winter. In the Victorian era some ceilings were only about 6.5' even though the average most people are familiar with from that era is closer to 13'. The really high ceilings were for the more affluent. The poorer folks that had their own cottage or home tended to have much lower ceilings, many even lower than the current residential height of 8' to 9'. We'd really have to know more about the history of the school to make any real assumptions about ceiling height in the cottages, though in the communal buildings higher is more likely.

So basically hogwarts style??

Oz hasn't really been around long enough to have old-fashioned schools like those. The closest are the study halls at Syd Uni's main campus, which has been around since Sydney was founded (more or less). Those have pretty high ceilings, the largest around 8-10m, or 26-32 feet in Imperial. The corridors and passageways are about 3-3.5m tall, or 9 to 11 feet. As for the rest of it, the sky's the limit.

For the other, more modern buildings, the ceiling height is about 2-2.75m, or 6 to 9 feet, The few study halls in those ones are around the same height, or drop down slightly to get about a extra half meter/one foot of space. As for the lecture theatres, don't ask me. Maybe 3 meters at the top of the slope to around ten meters at the bottom? I know my old primary school had quite narrow areas, but it was brand new when I got there, and it was composed primarily of those portable prefabricated cabins you usually see round contruction sites, propped up on bricks, with the wiring and other stuff hidden underneath. The bigger buildings weren't much better, as the largest one had most of the lower area as the teacher carpark and the maintenance storage spaces. I know my first high school's campus had been around since the 80's, and it was pretty spacious on the inside. My second high school was a converted warehouse from the 1920's, and it had REALLY roomy corridors. Admittedly it had been rebuilt into more than two large spaces when it was turned into a school, but it was still at least 1.25x the size of my first high school's corridors. It was also build vertically over four floors and three buildings in the middle of the city, so yeah...

Wow, this post has made me go back a long way. Sorry if the important stuff got caught in the rambles of a uni student remembering fonder, less stressful days back at high school/primary school. I'll...shut up now.

Mkay, it was in my head cause I wanted a char to be 8 feet and still growing, and not counting horns. She's a big girl, an the Amazons want her.

-smacks Muse- No we are not doing an Io/Charger cut scene where they get it on even if he's likely the only guy at the school that is big enough to... no not finishing that thought..

No smakin da muse Mr! Clearly she is just channeling what the rest of us want even though we didn't know we wanted it till now!