At my (large) university, there isn't as much drama. There are the people who drink a lot, but they mainly stay away from everybody else by the end of the first year.
In my second high school, there wasn't a ton of drama, mainly because all of the "smart" people got shoved into an upper caste of sorts. The same ~50 people shared many/most of their classes, but they were all reasonably intelligent, and drama didn't really come into play.
In my first high school, I only stayed there for my freshman year. Everyone only talked about sex, all the time, it seemed. All of the people who didn't talk about sex all the time were into anime (which I'm now into,) but I wasn't quite old enough to understand what they were referencing, being grade-skipped.
In my middle school, I started out when I was 8 and ended it when I was 11. I was oblivious to anyone's interactions at all.
So, I'm either blissfully unaware, or I just had a lucky break on avoiding most of the petty drama so far.