Welcome to Commie High explores an experiment in public education—Ann Arbor’s Community High School—from its humanistic, antiestablishment origins in the early ’70s through its survival into the ’90s, when sudden demand for this alternative, small school led to a phenomenon of lines, camping, and lottery systems. Now standing as one of the only remaining public schools of this wave of the free school movement, we see how the “Commie High” model has evolved and continues to reflect the world around it.