Students into television, film and radio production. Consisting of both male and female, these students can be found at the local station within the school.Go to: A/V Club
Asians who bleach their hair, act ghetto, and can be found playing DDR in arcades. They often interact with the ghetto subculture.Go to: AZN
Are interested mainly in schoolwork and grades, and are often particularly interested in literature, history, politics, mathematics and science. Often overlap with nerd, geek, choir, bando, orchestra dork and debater.Go to: Advanced Placement
Girls who wear the extremely expensive designer clothes, and the ones who are up to the minute with the latest fashions. Usually not so bright socially or intellectually. Overlaps sometimes with the prep.Go to: Airhead
Students bent on avoiding the mainstream. Associated in the 1990s with alternative music. Frequently overlaps with druggie, goth, individualist and artsy. Go to: Alternative
These students, usually girls but some boys are usually interested in all sort of animals, especially horses with girls, and dogs with boys. These people generally don't like other people and may be considered outcast and/or reject.Go to: Animal Lover
Listen to Art Rock and Progressive Rock. Like old-school video games such as Pokémon, Nintendo and Zelda. Like a cool, socially adept version of geek.Go to: Art Rock
Those interested in photography, drawing, fashion, music etc. Frequently overlaps with theatre groups. Go to: Artsy
Students taking marching band, concert band, and/or other musical instruments that are considered being in the band genre. Similar parody to orchestra dork. Overlaps with orchestra dork, nerd, geek, artsy, individualist, rocker, and possibly emo.Go to: Bando
Students with blonde hair. They are sometimes referred as popular people or airhead, in site of the myth of the "dumb blonde".Go to: Blonde
Students who believe in individual freedom and nonconformity. Sometimes will overlap with artsy students, geek, individualist, nerd, alternative students, and most notably hippie. The term has been in use since at least the 1950s. Go to: Bohemian
Students who torment others through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion.Go to: Bully
More popular in the UK than in the US, these people are usually seen wearing tracksuits, lots of bling. They usually do the same things that the ghetto subculture does in America.Go to: Chav
Female students who are part of the cheerleading squad. Often overlaps with the in-crowd, female jock, blonde and prep. A stereotypical cheerleader is viewed as being dumb. Many "Queen-Bees" have come from this group.. When there is no cheerleading squad, these people are usually in other girl-oriented sports such as the girls' track team, tennis, volleyball, and especially dance team.Go to: Cheerleader
Chorus students, usually filled with girls, much to the interest of the minority of male choristers.Go to: Choir
Prideful Latina girls who take great interest in shopping. They are often perceived as unintelligent, materialistic, and morbidly obese.Go to: Chonga
An in-crowd jock. Name believed to be derived from the clothing chain, Abercrombie and Fitch (a popular retail store amongst middle class and high class teens in the United States) to jock and "jockettes" (see "cheerleader"). White baseball caps and upturned collars are a common identifying feature. Often overlaps with wannabe preppies. Go to: Crombie
Students taking debate and sometimes forensics.Go to: Debater
Students who take illicit drugs, especially marijuana. Sometimes overlaps with gangsta. Also known as , stoner, burnouts, pot-heads, crackheads, dope heads, skids, junkies, chronics.Go to: Druggie
Students who listen to emo music and/or partake in the emo subculture (dyed long hair, tight sweaters and jeans, horn-rimmed glasses); some who are simply highly emotional in character may also be labeled as emo. Frequently overlaps with alternative, artsies, goth, nerd, and punk. Most people identified as emo are not and are most likely scene kid.Go to: Emo
Play and are sometimes obsessed with video games and other technology, such as computers. Stereotypically they are seen as people who never leave their rooms and never go outside. Often overlap with geek and nerd, and more recently, hip hopper, mostly due to the existence of games based on the hip hop culture and the Grand Theft Auto series .Go to: Gamer
May or may not actually engage in street gang activities, depending on the city. In cities with little or no actual gang activity, a subculture identifying with the gangster subculture (through e.g. slang, clothing, and music) often nonetheless develops, most likely through positive depictions of gangsters as cool outlaws in the media. Frequently overlaps with druggie and bully. May be wigger.Go to: Gangsta
Are those who obsessively love cars, trucks, motorcycles, or anything that has to do with motors. This person is a motor vehicle or cycle enthusiast; also, an enthusiast for working on motor vehicles; a mechanic in the making. This group is almost exclusively male although females are readily accepted so long as they are really into motor vehicles. Also known as motorheads and car nuts,overlaps with azn's.Go to: Gear Head
A geek is a version of nerd. Sometimes plays role playing games online and generally hangs out and socializes with nerd. A "geek" can also be defined as someone who is obsessively knowledgable about a certain type of game, fandom, etc.Go to: Geek
White people who tend to act like black people. Some of them really live in the ghetto, but most of them are wannabe gangsta's.Go to: Ghetto
Members of the goth subculture. Usually listen to music of the gothic genre. Typically characterized by dark clothing, outlandish hair and clothing styles, many piercings, and 'dark' interests/worldview, frequently overlaps with alternative. Go to: Goth
Male, and a rare occasional female or tomboy, teenagers who are interested in the "guy" topics, such as guns, computers, hunting, fishing, weight lifting, the martial arts, and cars/trucks. Overlaps with hacker, gear head, redneck, nerd, and gamer.Go to: Guy
Sometimes called computer geek, these people take pride with computers and other modern technologies. Can usually overlap with geek, gamer, artsy, and occasionally gangsta's, reject and outcast.Go to: Hacker
Lacking membership in any group but also not actively or even passively ostracized by the general student body, Pseudo-reject who socialize among themselves.Go to: Hermit
Students who listen to hip-hop and other forms of such rap music. These often dress like those as seen in hip-hop music videos and are sometimes highly inspired by music channels like MTV or BET. Overlaps with the gangsta subculture.Go to: Hip Hopper
Identify with the hippie subculture. Frequently overlaps with bohemian, indie kid, artsy students and stoner. (Also includes neo-hippies.)Go to: Hippie
Students who pride themselves on being very popular with other students and who view their group as socially advanced and exclusive. Many times, other students may not consider the in-crowd people to be popular, perhaps this is because they can have bloated egos. Often overlaps with jock, airhead and wannabe-preppies.Go to: In-crowd
Listeners to independent rock music. Often clothed in retro or thrift store clothing, fans of obscure film and music, etc. See also hipster. Often confused with individualist because of the word, but they could be.Go to: Indie kid
People who feel secure with themselves and they rarely follow trends seriously. They are usually seen doing their own thing and they may or may not have friends. These people like to wear clothes they feel comfortable in and they like to listen to their kind of music. Usually overlaps with loner, artsy, goth, emo, alternative, rocker, bando, nerd, and sometimes redneck.Go to: Individualist
Students with interests in participatory athletics; traditional enemy of nerd, geek, moshers, individualist, and nowadays homosexuals. They are traditionally male, but as the 21st century progresses, female jocks have come out of the woodwork. Many female athletes have older brothers, which demonstrates the importance of sibling influence.Go to: Jock
Students who do not really stand out for any particular reason. They aren't part of the clique system but not completely outcast either. They go with the flow of things. Can be confused with loner or individualist. These people could also be considered "mixed bag".Go to: Joe Smoe
Another non-Japanese group who love Japanese fashion and trends besides anime and manga. They usually overlap with individualist, otaku and azn, they are more likely to be common in Singapore and outside Japan than in the US.Go to: Kawaii Kid
Usually introverts, but some may be complete extroverts, these people have little or no friends. They like to hang out with themselves or with their few friends, and may be seen eating lunch or on the street alone. Some may be highly intelligent and have lots of interests, but may be considered stupid by the general student body . Usually overlaps with goth', emo, gamer, bando, nerd, and artsy. Like animal lover and rogue, these people may not like other people, or have misanthropic tendencies.Go to: Loner
Students who listen to heavy metal music, often with long hair and wearing band t-shirts and jeans. Are occasionally mistaken as goth or punk.Go to: Metalhead
Students with interests in math, sciences, computers, and basically specific areas of knowledge; Recently there has been a new developing clique of those interested in accounting, and the stock market; traditional target of jock bullying and by definition more intelligent than the majority of the student body.Go to: Nerd
Students who participate in orchestra. Frequently overlap with bando. Also known as Orch-dorks.Go to: Orchestra dork
Rarely Asian, love manga and/or anime. Most write or draw characters or stories in Anime style.Go to: Otaku
Reject, usually by choice, but not always the case. The outcast is a person who does not fit into any specific clique, and as such, at times faces physical and psychological aggression from clique members.Go to: Outcast
Or Barbie/Ken Dolls. An in-crowd subset whose members use clothes, cars, and sometimes cosmetic surgery to appear as perfect as possible. Usually overlaps with prep, cheerleader, queen bee, blonde, and airhead.Go to: Plastics
Those identifying with the upper classes and preparatory school subcultures, although they do not at all belong to that subculture. Stereotyped as clean-cut and wearing fashionable, expensive clothing inspired by that of preparatory schools. Frequently overlaps with jock and the in-crowd. Go to: Prep
Identifying with the punk rock subculture. Frequently overlaps with reject or alternative.Go to: Punk
The queen bee is the clique's leader. Characteristics often associated to her are a pleasant appearance, charisma, skill in manipulation and monetary power. The queen bee has substantial influence and power over the clique, and is usually envied and looked upon as a role model by clique members and at times by outsiders to the clique. Her actions are closely followed and imitated, even though they may not be of a positive nature.Go to: Queen bee
Foreign exchange students from a common area, language clubs, members of large or tight-knit ethnic groups, etc.Go to: Racially-identified
Or members of a Gay-Straight Alliance. Gays and lesbians who are out of the closet and in relationships with each other. Often times there is a majority of young heterosexual women in these clubs, usually the best friends "Graces (after Will and Grace)", "Fruit Flies", or "Fag Hags", of young gay men.Go to: Rainbow Club
Students who regularly attend raves, a kind of all-night dance party, most often with hard drugs, especially ecstasy. This subculture is more popular in Europe than it is in America.Go to: Raver
Students who have red hair. Often overlaps with scene kid, goth, gangsta', ghetto, emo, bully, punk, skater,rainbow club, redneck, rocker, rogue.Go to: Redhead
Students who often listen to country music, have a love of cars and especially pick-up trucks, talk with explicit slang, and are sometimes seen as racists. Often times they are young men who are lax, are interested in the military, have peach fuzz, and wear white tank tops. Go to: Redneck
Socially ostracized students.Go to: Reject
Students with radical leftist politics. Che Guevara is the a common icon among these youth.Go to: Revolutionary
Students who are members of a local garage band or ones who play rock instruments. Overlaps with punk and bando.Go to: Rocker
Students who usually break the school rules, are in detention most of the time, and they might be part of gangs. Often overlaps with scene kid, goth, gangsta', ghetto, emo, bully, punk, skater, and anything that is considered in the stereotype of "rogue" behavior. Most rogues could be seen on MySpace.Go to: Rogue
(See emo kids) Scene kids are identified by their skin tight jeans and long, oftenly coloured (mostly brown, black or blonde) hair. They embrace a mixture of both emo and hardcore fashion tendercies and listening to local MTV-influenced pop-punk bands. They often talk to each other on MySpace.Go to: Scene Kid
Generally wants to be a hacker, but lacks the intellect and/or skills to cause mayhem on their own, and resort to downloading various wares developed by more skilled programmers. These programs give them a false sense of power, when realy they are probably just getting themselves hacked.Go to: Script Kiddie
Kids who like to listen to ska music, often wear Vans or Converse, sometimes known to be weird or "eccentric", but love what they do. Sometimes overlaps with reject and punk.Go to: Ska Geek
Students who are obsessed with skateboarding or other extreme sports. Often overlaps with punk and druggie.Go to: Skater
Students who essentially remain detached from their academic work, and show no interest in it. Slackers primarily look out for themselves and show no interest in excelling in high school academics or activities. May overlap with druggie, reject, stoner, etc.Go to: Slacker
Students who play or are crazy about soccer. They are usually seen wearing expensive gear eg. lacoste or the jerseys of their favourite team and sometimes going home early in order to watch the soccer match on TV. Sometimes they would get rowdy whenever their favourite team loses or when someone disses about soccer. Many of them belong to a casual team and get in fights with opposing teams supporters, They are more likely to be common in UK.Go to: Soccer casual
Students who go to the learning center, or have some sort of reading or social skills disorders such as autism and dyslexia. Also known as the retards, and the "short bussers". Go to: Sped
These people are often confused for (and believe they are) goth. They listen to alternative rock and heavy metal music, they are typically dressed in dark, punkish clothing and wear excessive accessories on their arms and wrists. Overlaps with goth, scene kid, emo, artsy, metalhead, loner and alternative. Also known as pseudo-goth.Go to: Spooky Kid
Similar to druggie, though the word is often associated primarily with the use of marijuana, and with the culture that surrounds this drug use. May overlap with druggie, reject, and slacker.Go to: Stoner
Students who participate in areas like Debate club or any other social studies club in their school. Often seen to be highly ambitious and concerned with improving their resumes.Go to: Student Government
Pregnant teenagers. Frequently seen as outcast by other school groups. Another stereotype is that they have really bad fathers/boyfriends. The teenage father is considered to be a spin-off of this group. This qroup generally consists of Latinos.Go to: Teenage mother
Students who frequently participate in theatrical productions. Often overlaps with artsy. These are also students who participate in their high school musical and may include snotty or big ego-ed Juilliard hopefuls, the sons of daughters of show mothers, and young men who like Broadway musicals.Go to: Theater kid
Basically the bad apples in the school. They are usually known for teasing students, stealing, and using explicit swear words. Also known as bully. May overlap with "gangsta" culture.Go to: Thug
Females who are considered boyish or masculine in behavior or manner. They can be attractive or even very attractive, but they usually just hang around with and act like guys. Because most males like them, most other females don't like them. In some cases, labeled as "dykes", "lesbos", or lesbians, often by other females or males who feel threatened by their presence.Go to: Tomboy
A wigger is usually someone who acts like a gangster, but has no, or very little connection to anti-social activities. Can overlap with druggie and Rappers.Go to: Wigger