Website I can go to to see how full an elementary school is?

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My kids are at a very underenrolled school. It is wonderful. They rarely have more than 20 kids in their class, often times more like 18 or 19.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at a school meant for 300 kids and there are currently 800 students at their MCPS school increasing to over 900 for FALL 2022. How does that compare to your ACPS? We're actually planning to move out of state because we feel MCPS is terrible.

You must be at Clarksburg. So sorry about the situation there. But it really is an outlier. About half of MCPS elementary schools are overcapacity, and most to a lesser degree than that.

And about half the HS are overcapacity, not to a lesser extent. We’re talking hundreds of kids. The situation at Clarksburg ES is shameful, especially since the lot for the new school has been known for years.

We are in Clarksburg Elementary too. Although a couple years late, a new school is being built this summer to address the overcrowding. It will be open in September 2023 school year. To help alleviate the issue for the upcoming school year, MCPS is allowing any Clarksburg elementary family to move to Gibbs ES since that school has space. Finally.

Wow, that's good. Are they providing bus service, or families that opt for that have to provide transportation?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at a very underenrolled school. It is wonderful. They rarely have more than 20 kids in their class, often times more like 18 or 19.

Underenrolled schools don't necessarily have small class sizes. It depends on the number of teachers hired per grade level and can vary from year to year.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at a school meant for 300 kids and there are currently 800 students at their MCPS school increasing to over 900 for FALL 2022. How does that compare to your ACPS? We're actually planning to move out of state because we feel MCPS is terrible.

You must be at Clarksburg. So sorry about the situation there. But it really is an outlier. About half of MCPS elementary schools are overcapacity, and most to a lesser degree than that.

And about half the HS are overcapacity, not to a lesser extent. We’re talking hundreds of kids. The situation at Clarksburg ES is shameful, especially since the lot for the new school has been known for years.

We are in Clarksburg Elementary too. Although a couple years late, a new school is being built this summer to address the overcrowding. It will be open in September 2023 school year. To help alleviate the issue for the upcoming school year, MCPS is allowing any Clarksburg elementary family to move to Gibbs ES since that school has space. Finally.

MCPS is always a couple years late adding school capacity. Or a decade.

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If your child is going into K it won't help. It's really random whether classes are small or big depending on how many kids sign up that year. One grade in DC's elementary had classes of 17 and another had classes of 27. The school itself is slightly under capacity but my child's experience was still with very full classes.

You should look at the enrollment for the actual grade your child will enter.

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Our DC's ES class used to be overcrowded at 26-27 students but thankfully is now 22-23, probably because of pandemic defectors. Hope the class size stays this way.

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Anonymous wrote:The demonstrated ignorance here is astounding and embarassing.

Go to the mcps website, www.mcpmd.org and do a search for cip. Click on the .pdf for the HS cluster the school you want want know about is in. You will see their capacity, and enrollment as of 9/30/2021, as well as future forecasts. Know the future forecasts are low in many overcrowded areas.

For the uninitiated, here is the link:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/cipmaster.aspx

Because many of the people posting on MCPS threads are private school parents and other trolls.

People with too much time on their hands.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at a school meant for 300 kids and there are currently 800 students at their MCPS school increasing to over 900 for FALL 2022. How does that compare to your ACPS? We're actually planning to move out of state because we feel MCPS is terrible.

You must be at Clarksburg. So sorry about the situation there. But it really is an outlier. About half of MCPS elementary schools are overcapacity, and most to a lesser degree than that.

And about half the HS are overcapacity, not to a lesser extent. We’re talking hundreds of kids. The situation at Clarksburg ES is shameful, especially since the lot for the new school has been known for years.

We are in Clarksburg Elementary too. Although a couple years late, a new school is being built this summer to address the overcrowding. It will be open in September 2023 school year. To help alleviate the issue for the upcoming school year, MCPS is allowing any Clarksburg elementary family to move to Gibbs ES since that school has space. Finally.

Wow, that's good. Are they providing bus service, or families that opt for that have to provide transportation?

They are not providing bus service. Parents have to provide transportation. Gibbs ES is in Germantown.

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I would not rely on any data that's from before September 2021. Covid threw a loop on enrollment as some families temporarily shifted to Virtual Academy, or private, or homeschool. But over the course of the year I know my kid's elementary school (Bayard Rustin ES) has also seen a number of new students enroll (or perhaps re-enroll) over the past few months.

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If there is a school or a few, that you are interested in, drive over and look for the number, if any, of "learning cottages" outside of the school in their field. Our former elementary school was bursting at the seams during K & 1, and had 8-10 adjacent to the playground. By the time a huge addition went up, we had moved on, but it was 5th grade by then.

While checking the capital queue is great, keep in mind projects get delayed or pushed out for a number of reasons, including budget and cost. I just saw this today from the Assoc. Builders and Contractors--

Construction input prices are up 23.6% over the past 12 months, while nonresidential construction input prices rose 24.3%.

[Anonymous]

Adding to above,

At a typical class size for that school 8-10*25 kids = 200-250 students outside on the portables.

Meanwhile, the "original size" lunchroom, art room, library, computer lab, etc. had to accommodate all those extra students for years.

[Anonymous]

Here is the list of the number of portables each school has this school year:

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP23_AppendixH.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the list of the number of portables each school has this school year:

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP23_AppendixH.pdf

NP here, and thanks, this is great!

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the list of the number of portables each school has this school year:

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP23_AppendixH.pdf

Blair has 18--that's like 540 kids!!