Class sizes in elementary centers

[Anonymous]

Unless you have a special education teacher in the classroom you are not going to have more than one teacher in the classroom. It really is school dependent but I would be shocked if you get much less than 25-26. This is the norm and there aren't published plans to reduce class size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless you have a special education teacher in the classroom you are not going to have more than one teacher in the classroom. It really is school dependent but I would be shocked if you get much less than 25-26. This is the norm and there aren't published plans to reduce class size.

With an IA (not just a full teacher) I believe older grades can go up to something crazy like 35. Our center regularly has a 6th grade IA or two.

[Anonymous]

Last year my kid’s 6th grade had 4 AAP classes of 28-30. This year at the same school my younger kid’s 3rd grade has 3 AAP classes of 21-25. It just depends. This is at a large, popular center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our child is a rising 3rd grader currently in a small private where classes are no more than 14 kids. It's a great, nurturing environment but we have concerns about the ability of the school to accelerate curriculum to meet the child's needs. Child qualified for CTY based on test scores and I expect that they would get into Level 4 AAP, though I know nothing is guaranteed. Our concern is class size - parents at our center school have said that there are 25-26 kids per class. Is that the norm, and are there any broad plans to reduce class size? Are there additional teaching resources or aides who help out in the classrooms or is it just one teacher?

If you are motivated, there's no reason your child can't get into LIV. A lot of this is random but if you appeal and have the resource to afford private testing, it won't be an issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our child is a rising 3rd grader currently in a small private where classes are no more than 14 kids. It's a great, nurturing environment but we have concerns about the ability of the school to accelerate curriculum to meet the child's needs. Child qualified for CTY based on test scores and I expect that they would get into Level 4 AAP, though I know nothing is guaranteed. Our concern is class size - parents at our center school have said that there are 25-26 kids per class. Is that the norm, and are there any broad plans to reduce class size? Are there additional teaching resources or aides who help out in the classrooms or is it just one teacher?

If you are motivated, there's no reason your child can't get into LIV. A lot of this is random but if you appeal and have the resource to afford private testing, it won't be an issue.

This is nonsense mythology perpetuated incessantly on this board. I know plenty of ppl who appealed with WISC and were still rejected. To get into AAP these days, at least at high SES schools, your kid needs high scores (98/99%), solid teacher ratings, and work samples supporting the scores. This holistic assessment should show that the student needs advanced level curriculum in all subject areas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our child is a rising 3rd grader currently in a small private where classes are no more than 14 kids. It's a great, nurturing environment but we have concerns about the ability of the school to accelerate curriculum to meet the child's needs. Child qualified for CTY based on test scores and I expect that they would get into Level 4 AAP, though I know nothing is guaranteed. Our concern is class size - parents at our center school have said that there are 25-26 kids per class. Is that the norm, and are there any broad plans to reduce class size? Are there additional teaching resources or aides who help out in the classrooms or is it just one teacher?

If you are motivated, there's no reason your child can't get into LIV. A lot of this is random but if you appeal and have the resource to afford private testing, it won't be an issue.

This is nonsense mythology perpetuated incessantly on this board. I know plenty of ppl who appealed with WISC and were still rejected. To get into AAP these days, at least at high SES schools, your kid needs high scores (98/99%), solid teacher ratings, and work samples supporting the scores. This holistic assessment should show that the student needs advanced level curriculum in all subject areas.

There are plenty of average to below average kids in AAP everywhere. The myth perpetuated incessantly on this board is that anything below a 140 test score (NNAT/CogAT/WISC) isn't good enough, when the reality is that kids like that are rare even in AAP
-person whose kids are at a mid-SES center

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our child is a rising 3rd grader currently in a small private where classes are no more than 14 kids. It's a great, nurturing environment but we have concerns about the ability of the school to accelerate curriculum to meet the child's needs. Child qualified for CTY based on test scores and I expect that they would get into Level 4 AAP, though I know nothing is guaranteed. Our concern is class size - parents at our center school have said that there are 25-26 kids per class. Is that the norm, and are there any broad plans to reduce class size? Are there additional teaching resources or aides who help out in the classrooms or is it just one teacher?

If you are motivated, there's no reason your child can't get into LIV. A lot of this is random but if you appeal and have the resource to afford private testing, it won't be an issue.

This is nonsense mythology perpetuated incessantly on this board. I know plenty of ppl who appealed with WISC and were still rejected. To get into AAP these days, at least at high SES schools, your kid needs high scores (98/99%), solid teacher ratings, and work samples supporting the scores. This holistic assessment should show that the student needs advanced level curriculum in all subject areas.

There are plenty of average to below average kids in AAP everywhere. The myth perpetuated incessantly on this board is that anything below a 140 test score (NNAT/CogAT/WISC) isn't good enough, when the reality is that kids like that are rare even in AAP
-person whose kids are at a mid-SES center

98-99% is in the low 130s. 132 used to be the county-wide in-pool cutoff and while in-pool cutoff has risen, there are plenty of kids in AAP who test 130+. There are not plenty of average to low average students at the high SES centers but there are plenty of kids w/ scores in 130-140 range.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our child is a rising 3rd grader currently in a small private where classes are no more than 14 kids. It's a great, nurturing environment but we have concerns about the ability of the school to accelerate curriculum to meet the child's needs. Child qualified for CTY based on test scores and I expect that they would get into Level 4 AAP, though I know nothing is guaranteed. Our concern is class size - parents at our center school have said that there are 25-26 kids per class. Is that the norm, and are there any broad plans to reduce class size? Are there additional teaching resources or aides who help out in the classrooms or is it just one teacher?

If you are motivated, there's no reason your child can't get into LIV. A lot of this is random but if you appeal and have the resource to afford private testing, it won't be an issue.

This is nonsense mythology perpetuated incessantly on this board. I know plenty of ppl who appealed with WISC and were still rejected. To get into AAP these days, at least at high SES schools, your kid needs high scores (98/99%), solid teacher ratings, and work samples supporting the scores. This holistic assessment should show that the student needs advanced level curriculum in all subject areas.

There are plenty of average to below average kids in AAP everywhere. The myth perpetuated incessantly on this board is that anything below a 140 test score (NNAT/CogAT/WISC) isn't good enough, when the reality is that kids like that are rare even in AAP
-person whose kids are at a mid-SES center

98-99% is in the low 130s. 132 used to be the county-wide in-pool cutoff and while in-pool cutoff has risen, there are plenty of kids in AAP who test 130+. There are not plenty of average to low average students at the high SES centers but there are plenty of kids w/ scores in 130-140 range.

I bet there are more kids in the 1-teens and 120s than you think, though.