Is it common to have 30+ kids in class in MCPS ES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 32 kids in 3rd grade. Nothing new here. MCPS sucks

+1. MCPS parents can no longer brag about how great their schools are, they are an embarassment.

Still better than anything around the area, though.

Not quite.

Did you see the Washington Post article about PARCC scores?

Howard County and Anne Arundel are better performing. MCPS is on a definite downward trajectory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 32 kids in 3rd grade. Nothing new here. MCPS sucks

+1. MCPS parents can no longer brag about how great their schools are, they are an embarassment.

Still better than anything around the area, though.

Not quite.

Did you see the Washington Post article about PARCC scores?

Howard County and Anne Arundel are better performing. MCPS is on a definite downward trajectory.

MCPS students do not care too much about a soon to be extinct test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 32 kids in 3rd grade. Nothing new here. MCPS sucks

+1. MCPS parents can no longer brag about how great their schools are, they are an embarassment.

Still better than anything around the area, though.

Not quite.

Did you see the Washington Post article about PARCC scores?

Howard County and Anne Arundel are better performing. MCPS is on a definite downward trajectory.

MCPS students do not care too much about a soon to be extinct test.

Where it matters, MCPS leads: AP tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The MCPS Board rejected a request from the principal of my child's ES for additional staffing for the 18-19 school year. So, given current enrollment numbers, there are going to be 30-31 students in my child's fourth grade class, as well as in a few other grades, which exceeds MCPS's own guidelines. And typically we get a few additional students in the class during the school year, so that number will get even higher. Do other MCPS ES classrooms have 30+ students?

There were 30 kids in my daughters K and 1st classes. As you would expect, it was absolutely chaotic.

[Anonymous]

Well over 30 in our 4th grade compacted math class. Homerooms are smaller, but the math "block" (which I think also includes science?) is much larger because something like 55-60% of kids are in compacted math. (The parallel grade level math class is in the 20s.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 32 kids in 3rd grade. Nothing new here. MCPS sucks

We just got allocated an additional 3rd grade teacher and I would be shocked if the classes were up to 32. We were told they were at 28 average with 4 classes. There may have been some last minute enrollment increase, but I can’t believe it would be 11 or more kids. 32 at the start of the year is way above the guidelines.

OP here. Recently attended our school's open house, and there are 31 students in each fourth grade class. No additional teacher allocated.

[Anonymous]

26 my oldest kids class which is a focus school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:26 my oldest kids class which is a focus school

We are at a Focus school and my 5th grader has 29 kids in her class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its common in Potomac ES schools where the over all enrollment is low and the scores are off the charts - the lowest reading group is a year above grade level, less than 5% of the kids get under 90% on MAP tests etc. MCPS doesn't care about these kids, in fact they hurt the achievement gap numbers for performing so well.

OMG, how they all get to that level? Are they Asian kids? Or a mix?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its common in Potomac ES schools where the over all enrollment is low and the scores are off the charts - the lowest reading group is a year above grade level, less than 5% of the kids get under 90% on MAP tests etc. MCPS doesn't care about these kids, in fact they hurt the achievement gap numbers for performing so well.

OMG, how they all get to that level? Are they Asian kids? Or a mix?

Of course they are Asian, didn’t you read the part about the MAP scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its common in Potomac ES schools where the over all enrollment is low and the scores are off the charts - the lowest reading group is a year above grade level, less than 5% of the kids get under 90% on MAP tests etc. MCPS doesn't care about these kids, in fact they hurt the achievement gap numbers for performing so well.

OMG, how they all get to that level? Are they Asian kids? Or a mix?

38% Asian, 44% white, FARMs rate < 5%, ESOL 6%. Feeds into Churchill cluster, so it's a reflection of SES more than anything.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02601.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its common in Potomac ES schools where the over all enrollment is low and the scores are off the charts - the lowest reading group is a year above grade level, less than 5% of the kids get under 90% on MAP tests etc. MCPS doesn't care about these kids, in fact they hurt the achievement gap numbers for performing so well.

OMG, how they all get to that level? Are they Asian kids? Or a mix?

Of course they are Asian, didn’t you read the part about the MAP scores

I looked up the school. Only 30% are Asian

[Anonymous]

What about the other 50% that are not Asian?

[Anonymous]

Just saw the class list for 5th graders. Four classes - lowest count is 22; highest is 27. I don't understand why they don't just even it out from the start. I understand that some kids will enroll after school starts, but the imbalance seems ridiculous. Not a FOCUS school.

Unfortunately, the compacted math class is over 30+ kids, like a PP stated. They pushed too many kids in there. I volunteered for that class, and some kids were really struggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its common in Potomac ES schools where the over all enrollment is low and the scores are off the charts - the lowest reading group is a year above grade level, less than 5% of the kids get under 90% on MAP tests etc. MCPS doesn't care about these kids, in fact they hurt the achievement gap numbers for performing so well.

OMG, how they all get to that level? Are they Asian kids? Or a mix?

Of course they are Asian, didn’t you read the part about the MAP scores

I looked up the school. Only 30% are Asian

more like closer to 40%.