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My understanding of what's typical in American high schools is that most students only get as far as trigonometry or precalculus. Stronger students will take some form of calculus. But even at that point the closest thing a typical student will come to taking a course on proofs is seeing some "two-column proofs" of statements in Euclidean geometry.
That seems accurate to me.