Class Sizes

[Anonymous]

Class Sizes

How big are your kids classes? What grade level and subject?

[Anonymous]

4th - homeroom is 21.

[Anonymous]

5th- 22 students (but I know the 4th grade classes are around 28 so we just got lucky).

[Anonymous]

A junior and it varies. 30 in AP Calc, under 20 in a few IB classes

[Anonymous]

The largest class any of my kids had was 34 in geometry in MS. And that was definitely an outlier. ES I think the largest was around 22. My daughter had 13 in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Kindergarten - 28. Third grade - 24. And this is after they rezoned half our neighborhood to a different elementary school this year to make it smaller.

[Anonymous]

1st grade is 22
3rd grade is 19
5th is 29

[Anonymous]

2nd grader has 16 I think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten - 28. Third grade - 24. And this is after they rezoned half our neighborhood to a different elementary school this year to make it smaller.

Smaller schools have fewer teachers allotted, so it wouldn't result in smaller class sizes.

[Anonymous]

Son and daughter are at two different HS. Both noted huge AP Lang classes! I can’t imagine how those teachers will grade 30+ papers on top of whatever other courses they are teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Son and daughter are at two different HS. Both noted huge AP Lang classes! I can’t imagine how those teachers will grade 30+ papers on top of whatever other courses they are teaching.

HS English departments get a composition assistant to help with grading.

[Anonymous]

Is there somewhere I can find the maximum class sizes for elementary school? I tried searching the MCPS site but wasn't able to locate any info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there somewhere I can find the maximum class sizes for elementary school? I tried searching the MCPS site but wasn't able to locate any info.

They aren't maximums, they're merely guidelines:

Classroom teacher positions for Grades K–5
are allocated based on enrollment projections
to Kindergarten using a class size guideline of
24, to Grades 1–2 using a class size guideline of
25, to Grade 3 using a class size guideline of 26,
and to Grades 4-5 using a class size guideline of
28. Additional classroom teacher positions are
provided to focus and Title I schools to Grades
K–2 using a class size guideline of 18, to Grade 3
using a class size guideline of 24, and to Grades
4-5 using a class size guideline of 26.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/budget/FY2023_Appendix%20C_Pre-K-12%20Professional%20Staff%20%20Budget%20Staffing%20Guidelines(1).pdf

[Anonymous]

18 in 1st grade (focus school). Happy about that because last year all the kindergarten classes ended up being ~21-23 students per class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there somewhere I can find the maximum class sizes for elementary school? I tried searching the MCPS site but wasn't able to locate any info.

They aren't maximums, they're merely guidelines:

Classroom teacher positions for Grades K–5
are allocated based on enrollment projections
to Kindergarten using a class size guideline of
24, to Grades 1–2 using a class size guideline of
25, to Grade 3 using a class size guideline of 26,
and to Grades 4-5 using a class size guideline of
28. Additional classroom teacher positions are
provided to focus and Title I schools to Grades
K–2 using a class size guideline of 18, to Grade 3
using a class size guideline of 24, and to Grades
4-5 using a class size guideline of 26.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/budget/FY2023_Appendix%20C_Pre-K-12%20Professional%20Staff%20%20Budget%20Staffing%20Guidelines(1).pdf

Thank you!!