Kindergartens w/small class sizes?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone recommend a school in Montgomery County or DC that intentionally keeps their K classes small (say, under 18)? The schools we like best have very large classes. Would not work for dc.

[Anonymous]

that is small. some of the nursery schools with a k might be like that. st. andrews may be that tiny.

[Anonymous]

If you are willing to look further out.
Germantown has New Covenant Christian school.

[Anonymous]

My son's Kindergarden class at the River School had 8 children

[Anonymous]

I thought River was a school for hearing impaired kids mostly. Seneca Academy/Circle School has tiny classes.

[Anonymous]

If I remember correctly Green Acres has 30-35 kids in K, but they have four K teachers so much of the time it's like having a class of under 10.

[Anonymous]

Lowell K has 12-14

[Anonymous]

The River School is founded to help children with mild to profound hearing loss in an integrated environment. But there are only 1-2 children with hearing issues in each class. My child has attended for 2 years, and in a class of 13 or so, she is the only one who wears aids. The rest of the kids are regular hearing kids whose families are attracted by the very small class sizes and language-rich curriculum.

[Anonymous]

St. Patrick's has 18-20 in kindergarten, with two teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I remember correctly Green Acres has 30-35 kids in K, but they have four K teachers so much of the time it's like having a class of under 10.

Not really, the recent studies show that the number of people in the room determines engagement of the student. The more people in the room, the less the child is engaged. So you are really better off with 15 kids and one teacher than 20 kids and two teachers. Smaller crowd means less distraction.

[Anonymous]

Not sure of count, but Capitol Hill Day School has Pre-k, K, and Pre-k-K, all small with two teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I remember correctly Green Acres has 30-35 kids in K, but they have four K teachers so much of the time it's like having a class of under 10.

Not really, the recent studies show that the number of people in the room determines engagement of the student. The more people in the room, the less the child is engaged. So you are really better off with 15 kids and one teacher than 20 kids and two teachers. Smaller crowd means less distraction.

In our child's K, there are 20 kids and two teachers, and most of the time they are broken up into two groups of 10 each (e.g. for math or reading), so I disagree with the above. Two teachers and 20 kids means often it is 10 kids and one teacher (at least in our case).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I remember correctly Green Acres has 30-35 kids in K, but they have four K teachers so much of the time it's like having a class of under 10.

Not really, the recent studies show that the number of people in the room determines engagement of the student. The more people in the room, the less the child is engaged. So you are really better off with 15 kids and one teacher than 20 kids and two teachers. Smaller crowd means less distraction.

In our child's K, there are 20 kids and two teachers, and most of the time they are broken up into two groups of 10 each (e.g. for math or reading), so I disagree with the above. Two teachers and 20 kids means often it is 10 kids and one teacher (at least in our case).

It is fine to disagree, I am just stating what research has said. My child was also in a K with 2 teachers and 16 kids, with three K classes set up like this. I would have preferred that she had one teacher and 12 kids in a separate room, and they saved (us) the money by cutting some teachers.

[Anonymous]

McLean --- under 12 and sometimes way under 12.

I've had one child at Mclean and one at a school where there were 20 kids with 2 teachers and there really is a big difference. My child in a class with 20 did fine, and it was OK for her, but it was still a class of 20 (even with the times they were broken down into smaller groups).

Sometimes we have to avoid the impulse to say that whatever worked for our kid must be the best way to go for every kid. PP, the 20 kid classroom might have been great for your DC, but OP asked for input on schools with smaller classes. She didn't ask to be convinced to do it your way.

[Anonymous]

Harbor School has 14 and 2 teachers
Concord Hill has 18 and 2 teachers