MCPS Redisricting - offshoot from open enrollment/busing thread

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is in a 24 child class at BFES. A fine class size, but how do you get a 3:1 ratio?? My friend's kid at Oakland Terrace (they are in a lovely home in Kensington) has 16 kids in her class. Oh, and they have other people, too. Their compacted math class has 10 people in it and a dedicated teacher- BFES definitely does not have that! Stop assuming everything is more magical in some of these schools! ALL schools follow the same rules.

Seriously. Wood Acres is in the Whitman cluster. Class size for my kids has run as high as 28-29. Right now the school is nearly 250 overcapacity with nearly 800 kids. 800! The school is so overcrowded, the kids start their lunch shifts at 10:45 and kids complain they have to hork their food down in 10 minutes to make way for the next shift. Man, the anti-W myths being spread are maddening.

Let's change that to Wootton and Churchill cluster... most of the ESs in those clusters are under capacity.

My kid is in 26-kid Kindergarten class at Bells Mill, churchill cluster. I heard the incoming K class will reach 28 the maximum.

According to the capacity report, Bells Mills is just under capacity. If the school is at capacity, then each class would be at its max. If the school/class is over-capacity, legally, the school must add an extra class. So for an ES that is at overcapacity for the K class, they would have to add 1 more class which may reduce the size of each individual K class. But if this happens, at least one class would have to go into a portable which takes over the blacktop play area. Additionally, the common areas like the lunch room are still over crowded.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02607.pdf

I don't really trust this report. According to this report, 95 kids in Kindergarten. But my son't class have 26 kids, and I know the other class has 25 kids. There are 4 K classes. How come there are only 95 kids? That means the other two classes only have 22 kids each? Is it possible?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is in a 24 child class at BFES. A fine class size, but how do you get a 3:1 ratio?? My friend's kid at Oakland Terrace (they are in a lovely home in Kensington) has 16 kids in her class. Oh, and they have other people, too. Their compacted math class has 10 people in it and a dedicated teacher- BFES definitely does not have that! Stop assuming everything is more magical in some of these schools! ALL schools follow the same rules.

Seriously. Wood Acres is in the Whitman cluster. Class size for my kids has run as high as 28-29. Right now the school is nearly 250 overcapacity with nearly 800 kids. 800! The school is so overcrowded, the kids start their lunch shifts at 10:45 and kids complain they have to hork their food down in 10 minutes to make way for the next shift. Man, the anti-W myths being spread are maddening.

Let's change that to Wootton and Churchill cluster... most of the ESs in those clusters are under capacity.

My kid is in 26-kid Kindergarten class at Bells Mill, churchill cluster. I heard the incoming K class will reach 28 the maximum.

According to the capacity report, Bells Mills is just under capacity. If the school is at capacity, then each class would be at its max. If the school/class is over-capacity, legally, the school must add an extra class. So for an ES that is at overcapacity for the K class, they would have to add 1 more class which may reduce the size of each individual K class. But if this happens, at least one class would have to go into a portable which takes over the blacktop play area. Additionally, the common areas like the lunch room are still over crowded.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02607.pdf

I don't really trust this report. According to this report, 95 kids in Kindergarten. But my son't class have 26 kids, and I know the other class has 25 kids. There are 4 K classes. How come there are only 95 kids? That means the other two classes only have 22 kids each? Is it possible?

Maybe the figures were published before a few kids enrolled.