What Are High Schools Useful for in Tropico 5

Tropico 5 is a pretty straightforward game as far as city-building games go, but even with the game’s tutorials, there are tons of buildings that might leave you wondering why you need to build them. Although a high school seems pretty obvious, it clearly educates your civilians. What does that actually mean to your Tropico 5 island, and what else are high schools actually useful for in Tropico 5?

High Schools in Tropico 5 are classed as education buildings. When you build most buildings in Tropico, you’ll need to fill the available positions with educated workers, and of course, to get educated workers, you need places for education to take place first.

A high school is useful for providing the uneducated citizens of Tropico with a high school degree. This means they can work in places like factories, police stations, etc. High schools also provide grade school education to those who live near them (which is pretty handy to know).

Religious and Nationalists factions will have a high approval for you if you construct high schools (also good to know if you’re looking to please these groups).

Upgrades

In modern times, you can upgrade the high school in Tropico 5. The cost is $4,500 to use more hands-on teaching. Thisincreases the building’s effectiveness by 50, which can be an effective way to get more educated workers quicker, helping you to fill up job vacancies and make your island more productive.

Of course, you don’t have to upgrade your high school in Tropico 5; if you prefer, you can choose to save money and leave it as it is, although in doing so, you won’t reap the benefits of the upgraded effectiveness.

Effectiveness

This affects the rate of citizens graduating high school. The more effective the high school, the faster the uneducated citizens become educated (graduate).

If the effectiveness remains at 100 (default), the ‘normal’ 4 years of high school applies. However, effectiveness can also decrease, causing the graduation time to increase.

It’s actually possible to increase the graduation time to less than 1 year with certain conditions met. You’ll need to activate the following:

• Interactive Education
• Literacy Program
• Free Market
• Mentors

If you place high schoolsadjacent to museums, this canalso boost the effectiveness, so it’s worth bearing this in mind then you’re planning where to put your high school, and making sure that you have enough room.