GDS class sizes by grade
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Anonymous
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You can really see the impact of the reduced 9th grade entry due to the issues w/ the neighborhood. 23 fewer kids in 9th grade than 10th grade classes 2023-2024 PK/K 15 K 40 1st - 41 2nd - 46 3rd - 48 4th - 57 5th - 71 6th - 78 7th - 77 8th - 84 9th - 116 10th - 139 11th - 132 12th - 132 |
Anonymous
Let’s rephrase that. The issue is with the school not complying with the zoning agreement. This issue is of their own making and this is the plan the school is using to comply with zoning regulations. It’s a pretty basic administrative task and should never have gotten to this point but that is the way the school’s leadership rolls! No one(except a few parents of kids who did not get in) really care. It will be back to normal on 2-3 years. |
Anonymous
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Sidestep - What I find interesting is I always thought GDS had bigger HS cohorts than Sidwell - I thought it was more like 150 at GDS but these 11/12 cohorts look similar to our child's Sidwell cohort.
Back on topic - what is the total headcount ceiling required by the zoning agreement? |
Anonymous
| What’s PK/K? I thought that program stopped a few years ago, thankfully. |
Anonymous
I'm confused by this as well. I thought GDS had a pre-k class and a kindergarten class. PK/K doesn't make any sense. |
Anonymous
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Comparing this to online GDS numbers by division (below on left) - GDS is only one student over (current from above list in parentheses on right)
1075 total (1076) 275 k-4 (247) 300 5-8 (310) 500 9-12 (519) Seems like with departure of senior class, they should be able to get back to more typical MS/HS cohort sizes of 75/125 (if divided evenly). Still at expense of LS admissions though. |
Anonymous
It's probably a typo and meant to be PK |
Anonymous
They call it PK/K at GDS. I can't tell you why but that's what it is called. It's really just a pre-K year |
Anonymous
Back when we were there, they had three classrooms for those grades. Two were comprised of half PK students and half Kindergarten students, and another was entirely Kindergarten students. Has that changed? |
Anonymous
Based on this, I don't see what the neighborhood is complaining about. GDS was over enrollment for maybe two years and course corrected immediately. |
Anonymous
I think GDS had to adjust pretty abruptly last year during admissions to get to this state. They must have accepted almost nobody in lower school grades and cut back severely for 9th grade. |
Anonymous
they have a prek/k class combined of prekers and kindergarteners |
Anonymous
What would be a normal number of 9th graders next year? |
Anonymous
Well their website says they have 500 HS students, so I'd assume the general goal is to have 125 per grade. The website also says 300 is MS goal - which would be 75 per grade if spread evenly (not sure if that is a goal - as they may expand over the MS years). The current 8th class is 84 so that'd be about 40 new HS students added to get around 125. |
Anonymous
| In only a couple of years, GDS's class sizes will all be back to normal. Yeah, this year was brutal for new applicants, and we were very lucky that our daughter was admitted. My understanding is that, particularly for unhooked 9th graders, it was a very difficult year. As the larger classes graduate, though, everything will even out. |