Are there any small middle schools or k-8s in the MD suburbs?

[Anonymous]

I'm investigating places for us to live and wondering if there are any small middle schools or any k-8s in the public schools in the Maryland suburbs? Looking for a more or less average kid who isn't likely to qualify for any special programs on either end of the spectrum, but who might get pretty lost in the shuffle of a big school with constantly changing teachers.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

You should look at the MCPS website - the "at a glance" pages will tell you the sizes of all the middle schools. I am pretty sure there are no public k-8s. There may be some smaller middle schools but it may depend what you call small. Our MS is 1300 kids so a school could be smaller than that and still feel large.

[Anonymous]

There are no k-8s. Chevy Chase and North Chevy Chase are the last k-6 schools, but they are expected to follow the rest of the county to k-5 in the next few years with the building of a new middle school in Rock Creek (the new middle school may be on the "smaller" side but it will still probably be around 900 students).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm investigating places for us to live and wondering if there are any small middle schools or any k-8s in the public schools in the Maryland suburbs? Looking for a more or less average kid who isn't likely to qualify for any special programs on either end of the spectrum, but who might get pretty lost in the shuffle of a big school with constantly changing teachers.

Thanks!

MCPS? no

This is our first charter - http://www.crossway-community.org/programs/community-montessori-charter-school - but it's only through grade 3. Global Garden tried but wasn't successful at demonstrating how its curriculum was different from what MCPS had to offer - http://www.globalgardenpcs.org/

[Anonymous]

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Chevy Chase and North Chevy Chase are 3-6, not K-6. I think the smalles middle school is the one in Poolesville but that is way out there.

[Anonymous]

All of the MCPS schools are too big.

[Anonymous]

Depends on your definition of small but Howard county has schools with 400 - 750 middle school students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the MCPS schools are too big.

agreed. so are the classes. we need more teachers and teacher's aides/student teachers in these classrooms!

[Anonymous]

Newport Mill Middle in the Downcounty Cluster (matriculates to the much-maligned Einstien) has about 600 students.

[Anonymous]

All MCPS are too big. And crowded.