APS Kindergarten class size?

[Anonymous]

What is your current Kindergarten student's class size? We are looking at some local private schools and they say they have about 18 kids per class. This seems similar to my friends kids in APS. How many kids are your kids K class this year? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

This data for 2023 will be reported in October based on a September 30 enrollment. Usually there are 20-24 kids in a K class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your current Kindergarten student's class size? We are looking at some local private schools and they say they have about 18 kids per class. This seems similar to my friends kids in APS. How many kids are your kids K class this year? Thanks!

Are you looking at parochial schools? I have friends at several different area parochial schools and there are many reasons to choose them, but class size isn’t one of them. They aren’t dissimilar to APS class sizes, from what I’m told by my friends.

[Anonymous]

You can see historical class sizes by going here and clicking on class size report

https://www.apsva.us/statistics/enrollment/

[Anonymous]

Just about 20 in our non-title I school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can see historical class sizes by going here and clicking on class size report

https://www.apsva.us/statistics/enrollment/

Yup, varies widely by school and ho many kids they have in a grade. Last year's report is here. https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/07/FINAL-Class-Size-Report-2022-23.pdf

[Anonymous]

20

[Anonymous]

24

[Anonymous]

Kindergarten class sizes in APS are all over the place. Some of the “Lilly white privileged schools” that come under attack here had some pretty big classes last year. A swing of 2-3 enrollments can be the difference between a 17-19 kid class and a 24-25 kid class.

I can’t emphasize the importance of having a small class size in the younger years. Shame APS doesn’t value it, but its worth paying for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten class sizes in APS are all over the place. Some of the “Lilly white privileged schools” that come under attack here had some pretty big classes last year. A swing of 2-3 enrollments can be the difference between a 17-19 kid class and a 24-25 kid class.

I can’t emphasize the importance of having a small class size in the younger years. Shame APS doesn’t value it, but its worth paying for.

It's not about valuing small class sizes, but about enrollment. When kids enroll late, schools can be caught short of enough teachers. Our elementary tends to fluctuate between 3-4 kindergarten classes. One year they thought they only had enough kids for three classes, so didn't hire. Then they had a dozen kids register on the first day. That year the k classes were huge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten class sizes in APS are all over the place. Some of the “Lilly white privileged schools” that come under attack here had some pretty big classes last year. A swing of 2-3 enrollments can be the difference between a 17-19 kid class and a 24-25 kid class.

I can’t emphasize the importance of having a small class size in the younger years. Shame APS doesn’t value it, but its worth paying for.

It's not about valuing small class sizes, but about enrollment. When kids enroll late, schools can be caught short of enough teachers. Our elementary tends to fluctuate between 3-4 kindergarten classes. One year they thought they only had enough kids for three classes, so didn't hire. Then they had a dozen kids register on the first day. That year the k classes were huge.

They are willing to plan for 24 kids in a class. If you have 48 kids, you have 2 classes. If a dozen register on day 1, you’ve made an awful situation catastrophic. Sorry, but no one is learning that year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten class sizes in APS are all over the place. Some of the “Lilly white privileged schools” that come under attack here had some pretty big classes last year. A swing of 2-3 enrollments can be the difference between a 17-19 kid class and a 24-25 kid class.

I can’t emphasize the importance of having a small class size in the younger years. Shame APS doesn’t value it, but its worth paying for.

It's not about valuing small class sizes, but about enrollment. When kids enroll late, schools can be caught short of enough teachers. Our elementary tends to fluctuate between 3-4 kindergarten classes. One year they thought they only had enough kids for three classes, so didn't hire. Then they had a dozen kids register on the first day. That year the k classes were huge.

They are willing to plan for 24 kids in a class. If you have 48 kids, you have 2 classes. If a dozen register on day 1, you’ve made an awful situation catastrophic. Sorry, but no one is learning that year.

Nah, it's more like they thought they had 66 kids, or three classes of 22. If a dozen kids register the first day, then you have classes of 26. But one classroom was too small (closet sized) so that class couldn't fit 26, so it had 24. They put those two kids into a big classroom, so it had 28, and added a second assistant. Not ideal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten class sizes in APS are all over the place. Some of the “Lilly white privileged schools” that come under attack here had some pretty big classes last year. A swing of 2-3 enrollments can be the difference between a 17-19 kid class and a 24-25 kid class.

I can’t emphasize the importance of having a small class size in the younger years. Shame APS doesn’t value it, but its worth paying for.

It's not about valuing small class sizes, but about enrollment. When kids enroll late, schools can be caught short of enough teachers. Our elementary tends to fluctuate between 3-4 kindergarten classes. One year they thought they only had enough kids for three classes, so didn't hire. Then they had a dozen kids register on the first day. That year the k classes were huge.

They are willing to plan for 24 kids in a class. If you have 48 kids, you have 2 classes. If a dozen register on day 1, you’ve made an awful situation catastrophic. Sorry, but no one is learning that year.

Nah, it's more like they thought they had 66 kids, or three classes of 22. If a dozen kids register the first day, then you have classes of 26. But one classroom was too small (closet sized) so that class couldn't fit 26, so it had 24. They put those two kids into a big classroom, so it had 28, and added a second assistant. Not ideal.

these late registrations are just another thing pushing parents toward private schools.

[Anonymous]

My son’s APS kindergarten has 21 I believe, but I do know it can go a couple higher in some situations like others said.

[Anonymous]

22