How many students in your child's FCPS elementary school class?

[Anonymous]

31 in 5th grade AAP class at a center

23 in 2nd grade class at base school

[Anonymous]

27 in my child's 1st grade class..and it's a smaller class room.

There are 4 1st grade classes with 27, 27, 24, and 23 kids.

[Anonymous]

28 in 1st grade. I think all 4 classes have 28. Too many.

[Anonymous]

24 in 1st. 26 in 4th.

[Anonymous]

20 is 1st

[Anonymous]

20 in K with one full-time aide.

[Anonymous]

I just counted DD's 4th grade AAP class. 30 students. 30 in each AAP class. The GE classes seem to have about 24.

[Anonymous]

Grade - Class #1 size, Class #2 size, etc.
K – 24, 23, 21, 25
1 – 18, 21 , 21, 21
2 – 22, 25,26, 26
3 – 22, 23, 23, 22
4 – 27, 27, 27
5 – 31, 31, 31, 32
6 – 27, 27, 29

Many parents are especially concerned regarding the 5th grade class size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade - Class #1 size, Class #2 size, etc.
K – 24, 23, 21, 25
1 – 18, 21 , 21, 21
2 – 22, 25,26, 26
3 – 22, 23, 23, 22
4 – 27, 27, 27
5 – 31, 31, 31, 32
6 – 27, 27, 29

Many parents are especially concerned regarding the 5th grade class size.

Mind sharing which school this is?

[Anonymous]

Children at two schools.

Oldest DS in Local Level IV with 28 (4th grade). Had 30 last year. At his school, all 3rd grades last year were that large. We did not experience smaller class size in grade 3, in fact, it was ds's largest class.

Youngest DS entering K with 16 (with a teacher and aide). Though we had decided for our oldest to send to a non-neighborhood school, for our youngest, who has some special needs (social emotional), we could not imagine him in a class of 28 children in K (or more in older grades) and chose to return to our neighborhood school.

As a former elementary teacher, I cannot tell you how strongly I feel that these large class sizes take away so much opportunity for differentiation, for those who need extra help, and those who need extra challenge.

[Anonymous]

Is my neighborhood school the only one with 28 in a K class? That was their absolute cap - it seems they hit capacity, but not the tipping point for another teacher to be hired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is my neighborhood school the only one with 28 in a K class? That was their absolute cap - it seems they hit capacity, but not the tipping point for another teacher to be hired.

Update - just heard from another mom. Our K classes went over the "limit." The other 2 have 29 students. Hope that the 4th teacher is being hired as we speak!

[Anonymous]

30 in 5th grade general education class (the AAP got another teacher and they have 25 in each class, so I'm a bit bitter) - but I guess I should be thankful, last year DD had 34 in her class. It sucked! Thank God she had a phenomenal teacher that could handle it.

26 in DS's 3rd grade - but it's a 3rd/4th grade split class and it has the same number of kids as in the other 3rd grade classrooms - which I don't think is right. They did the split because there are so many in 3rd and 4th and that was their solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is my neighborhood school the only one with 28 in a K class? That was their absolute cap - it seems they hit capacity, but not the tipping point for another teacher to be hired.

Update - just heard from another mom. Our K classes went over the "limit." The other 2 have 29 students. Hope that the 4th teacher is being hired as we speak!

Curious - if they classes hit the limit, what do they do? Hire another teacher and then replace some of the kids with this new teacher? Seems less than ideal as well...

[Anonymous]

21 in K.