Have you wondered what the best bathroom here is? This article will explain which bathroom is the best through a tier list. The bathrooms will be ranked through an A, B, C, D and F tier list, where A is the best, while F is the worst.
The information was collected via a survey, asked what people thought about the bathrooms, and investigated each boy’s bathroom individually.
(The criteria were cleanliness, supplies, privacy, and what bathroom is used the most. For clarification, there are two different toilet papers, one is toilet paper rolls and the other is toilet tissue paper. The difference is toilet paper rolls are regular toilet paper, and toilet tissue paper is more like tissue paper than actual toilet paper. We will start from the bottom and work our way to the top. However, this article might be skewed to boys’ bathrooms over girls’ bathrooms, due to this reporter only personally confirming boys’ bathrooms.)
The last on the list are the F-building and J-building’s bathrooms. F-building has no stall doors and the stall walls are very short, so there is very little privacy. In terms of cleanliness, the F-building’s bathroom is the worst among the other bathrooms. The floors are old and dirty and there is a smell. The supplies this bathroom has at least are paper towels and toilet tissue paper. According to responses from students, F-building bathrooms need renovation. These students are in luck, however. Principal Ron Okamura said they allocated the funds to renovate the F-building’s bathrooms. So in the future F-building’s placement could change. J-building is higher than F-building but is still in the F tier. It only has a boys’ bathroom and also has no stall doors and the stall walls are very short. However compared to F-building, the floors look cleaner and there is no smell. There is little privacy and its location is near the parking lot, making it one of the farther bathrooms on this list. But this bathroom is higher than the F-building’s bathroom.
The next bathrooms are the D-tier bathrooms, which are the gym, B-building and D-building bathrooms. The gym’s bathrooms are better than the other two. The gym has better supplies and cleanliness. B-building’s bathrooms are next, with better privacy than the other two. While the bathrooms mostly have supplies, two of its stalls were out of order during the reporting period. D-building may mostly have supplies, decent privacy and be moderately clean, but what it lacks is its size. It is one of the smaller bathrooms on campus, causing it to be last in the D tier.
The bathrooms that are in the C tier are E-building and C-building. C-building’s bathrooms have a good amount of privacy and supplies and are moderately clean. This is probably due to its location, as it is one of the farther bathrooms on campus, and survey participants indicated it is mostly not used. Up next is the first upstairs bathroom on this list, E-building. Though a couple of its stalls are out of order and do not have mirrors, it is fairly clean, supplied and private, according to the survey. Additionally, thanks to it being upstairs, the windows are left open, letting in a breeze and making any smell dissipate.
Further up the list, we have the B-tier bathrooms, which are MS-building, Hirata Hall, band room and the health room. In terms of cleanliness, privacy and supplies, they are all fairly equal except for the health room. It has the best supplies over the others because it is always stocked with toilet paper, soap, paper towels, a tampon and pad dispenser and is even scented so it does not smell. Overall, it has the best privacy. However, it has only one stall, which limits its accessibility and if the health room is not open, it is also not open. That is why it is only a B tier. The other bathrooms have a similar problem in terms of accessibility. The MS building’s
bathrooms are the farthest bathroom on this list because it is on the edge of campus. Hirata Hall’s bathroom is only accessible to G/HH3 classrooms and those who are in Hirata Hall. Finally, the band room’s bathroom is only accessible to the Band, Chorus and Orchestra classes.
Before we get into which building’s bathrooms are the best, I need to mention that over time these bathrooms will change and these scores will become invalid. There have been problems where students abuse their privilege to use the bathroom as an excuse to wander around on campus and there are those who vandalize the bathrooms as well. There have been concerns that this article may make these problems worse, to be respectful and responsible students, let us all agree that the bathrooms here are important and should not be taken for granted, lest we want to find out.
The contenders for the best bathroom are W and A-building. A-building is always accessible to students before and after school hours, unlike other bathrooms and is in the center of campus, so it is within walking distance from the cafeteria to E-building. According to the survey, a majority of people think A-building bathrooms are the most used. W-building’s bathrooms were renovated in 2023, so they are the cleanest and newest out of all the bathrooms on this list. They are equally stocked in supplies, but instead of paper towels, A-building’s bathroom has a hand dryer. However, they are not equal in cleanliness and privacy, A-building’s stall doors have gaps where someone could peek through and one time, some of the stalls had their locks reversed, so you could not lock the stall. The hand dryer may save paper towels, but it is not as convenient as paper towels, which can be a grab-and-go. Compared to the W-building, the A-building’s bathroom is more vandalized and dirty.
So according to The Pinion’s survey and this reporter’s diligence in confirming the facts about most of the bathrooms, the best bathroom at MHS is the W-building’s bathrooms.
Now you know what the best bathroom is, so let’s keep it that way. These bathrooms are special and the people who take care of them should be treated with respect and gratitude too, because, without the bathrooms, MHS would be in chaos. The best bathrooms at MHS are the bathrooms that we treat the best. So make sure to ask for permission, wear your ID, and use the closest bathroom.
*Unfortunately the Boys and Girls Locker room could not be included in this article, due to a lack of time.
