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#4,163 All-time worldwide
#38 1987 releases

Movie profile

Summer School

1987 · 97 min · Paramount Pictures

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $35.1M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$14.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$21.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Summer School ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #4,163 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1987 releases #38 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1987. Studio / company #202 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,579 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#4,160 Honeymoon in Vegas 1992 · $35.2M #4,161 The Girl in the Spider's Web 2018 · $35.2M #4,162 Fletch Lives 1989 · $35.2M #4,164 The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 2000 · $35.1M #4,164 My Week with Marilyn 2011 · $35.1M #4,166 Miss Potter 2006 · $35.1M

Quick answer

How did Summer School (1987) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Summer School (1987) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $35.1M. In this database it currently ranks #4,163 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #38 among 1987 releases.

Worldwide gross
$35,114,428
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with them, and even inspires ardor in some.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 22, 1987
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1987 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1987, Summer School is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $35.1M. For comparison, it currently sits #4,163 all-time in the current chart set and #38 among 1987 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.