I doubt anyone around here would have any clue how to play water polo.
No and no. I have only seen pools in schools in movies and on TV.
It is so strange to me to hear that so many high schools don't have pools! Mine as well as all others around me have pools. My high school actually had an old abandoned one in the basement we took tours of, and then the new one that was used upstairs. It actually broke the winter of my senior year and flooded part of the first floor haha.
That was pretty common as far back as the 50s, at least, in schools, the Y, and elsewhere. And if you had questioned it back then, people would have looked at you weirdly, because why would they waste time and money on swimsuits for boys, not to mention mildew in their lockers. It was expected that many of the would someday be in the military, where they'd have to be used to being exposed around other guys.My high school had a pool but what freaks most people out: We were required to swim naked. This was early 70s and I have no clue why that was the case. Seems like it might have had something to do with storing wet swim trunks...but then the girls didn't have to swim naked, just the guys. So what did the girls do with their wet swimsuits? When I talked to some people who went to the same school a couple of years after me I ask and they say they wore suits, so it must have changed shortly after I graduated.
If they ever brought back rifle teams (not going to happen in any public school in the US ever again), the local high school here would dominate. People around here start deer hunting as soon as they're old enough to walk, it seems.