Ludlow-Taylor Fifth Grade?

[Anonymous]

Anyone know if they have two or three fifth grade classes this year? There was some talk in the spring that they'd have so many fifth graders that they'd have to go from two to three classes.

[Anonymous]

There are 3.

[Anonymous]

They have had 3 before (just not last year)

[Anonymous]

Yes, it’s gone back and forth over the last few years. Last year’s 5th grade was unusually small because of COVID attrition. This year’s 4th grade is the biggest ever (72 kids), so no chance there aren’t 3 classes next year.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a sense about whether they have space and might pull kids off the WL before count day? They usually pull a bunch of kids off the WL for fifth but the list did not move at all this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a sense about whether they have space and might pull kids off the WL before count day? They usually pull a bunch of kids off the WL for fifth but the list did not move at all this year.

I don't think they usually pull a bunch of kids for 5th. Usually its single digits and the higher single digit numbers have usually been when they didn't offer lottery spots. Two years ago may have been an exception because they overfilled two classes and so opened a third the week before school started.

In any case, the school is up 30 students from last year, and currently short a couple of classrooms because of the delayed extension, so I think it's unlikely that there will be WL movement anywhere. (I also can't imagine that if they were wanting to move things, they wouldn't have done it already since BOY testing is over and teaching is now in full swing.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a sense about whether they have space and might pull kids off the WL before count day? They usually pull a bunch of kids off the WL for fifth but the list did not move at all this year.

LT had an issue last year where they had an unexpected boom of new IB kids register right before school started. Some grade levels were oversubscribed as a result. They were pretty transparent that they were going to be more conservative this year with the WL and wouldn't make summer offers, and may not make any at all for most grades based on internal estimates. Seems like that's panning out. And + what others are posting about the fact they're short on physical space right now.