Kindergarten class sizes 24-25

[Anonymous]

What are Takoma Park Elementary’s numbers this year? Trying to determine if we’ll send our kid there next year for k.

[Anonymous]

Between 14-16 at Lakewood so far in each of 3 classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are Takoma Park Elementary’s numbers this year? Trying to determine if we’ll send our kid there next year for k.

The class sizes for any grade can vary from year to year depending on the enrollment and how the math shakes out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Between 14-16 at Lakewood so far in each of 3 classes.

Quite surprising that there are 3 classes with enrollment that low

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between 14-16 at Lakewood so far in each of 3 classes.

Quite surprising that there are 3 classes with enrollment that low

They said some more kids might still enroll.

[Anonymous]

Numbers for Rosemary Hills - have a kid that might go next year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are any schools seeing lower enrollment for Kindergarten this year? It’s hard to look for trends when MCPS hasn’t updated their at-a-glance documents/the new dashboard with 2023-4 data.

We went from 7 to 6 K classes.

But was that due to lower enrollment or increase in class size guidelines?

It’s lower enrollment, if they can keep around 23 each class at the beginning of the year, they can keep the extra class, if the enrollment is consistently 19-20, they will cut a class then each class will be crowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16 over here in Silver Spring.

16 high needs kids can be a bigger burden than 30 normal level kids

[Anonymous]

The class sizes at my focus school are tiny, 15 kids in some. Enrollment is down

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are Takoma Park Elementary’s numbers this year? Trying to determine if we’ll send our kid there next year for k.

The class sizes for any grade can vary from year to year depending on the enrollment and how the math shakes out.

Yeah but birthright trends are definitely going bdown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are Takoma Park Elementary’s numbers this year? Trying to determine if we’ll send our kid there next year for k.

The class sizes for any grade can vary from year to year depending on the enrollment and how the math shakes out.

Yeah but birthright trends are definitely going bdown

But fewer kids enrolling doesn't necessarily mean smaller class sizes. Let's say you have 60 kindergarteners this year and have three classes of 20 each. But next year, only 50 kindergarteners enroll, and then you have two classes of 25 each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between 14-16 at Lakewood so far in each of 3 classes.

Quite surprising that there are 3 classes with enrollment that low

They said some more kids might still enroll.

Isn’t that possible everywhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's too big, but schools are trying to save money.

I believe the subject was referring to school year 24-25. Not the size. OP was asking what sizes people are seeing this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are Takoma Park Elementary’s numbers this year? Trying to determine if we’ll send our kid there next year for k.

The class sizes for any grade can vary from year to year depending on the enrollment and how the math shakes out.

Yeah but birthright trends are definitely going bdown

But fewer kids enrolling doesn't necessarily mean smaller class sizes. Let's say you have 60 kindergarteners this year and have three classes of 20 each. But next year, only 50 kindergarteners enroll, and then you have two classes of 25 each.

This is what happened at our MCPS ES. Not from birthrates but kids leaving for private after Covid closures. Class sizes went up bc fewer teachers/classes per grade.