What is the maximum class size in elementary and middle school?

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Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

The school has ~38 sixth graders? Total? Wow. We ended the school year with 135.

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Anonymous wrote:There are FCPS caps and State caps. Title 1 schools each have their own class cap sizes at K-3 (anywhere from 19-26). They are waived this year, but they cannot exceed the FCPS caps for this year. Non-Title 1 schools can exceed the FCPS class size caps, but cannot exceed the state cap sizes.

Kindergarten—State: 29 FCPS: 28
Grades 1-3–State: 30 FCPS: 27
Grades 4-6–State: 35 FCPS: 29

My DCs have definitely been in classes with 30 kids or more. One year it was 32.

Based on these numbers I think FCPS is now following state numbers.

My AP mentioned this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile I have a class of 29 6th graders… 😫

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.

My bad, I checked with another parent, there are 3 6th grade classes. Sorry about the confusion but each around 16-18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the FCPS caps for middle school and high school core classes?

There aren’t any as far as I’m aware. One of my math classes is at 36 right now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.

My bad, I checked with another parent, there are 3 6th grade classes. Sorry about the confusion but each around 16-18.

FCPS needs to address these major discrepancies - my child's has four 6th graded classes of 25-30 children each. Incredibly unfair. We'd like one of your teachers that you don't need, thanks.

[Anonymous]

Franklin Sherman has a sizable special Ed student population, that is most probably the defining factor in small class sizes.

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Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.

My bad, I checked with another parent, there are 3 6th grade classes. Sorry about the confusion but each around 16-18.

FCPS needs to address these major discrepancies - my child's has four 6th graded classes of 25-30 children each. Incredibly unfair. We'd like one of your teachers that you don't need, thanks.

Just be quiet. Your entitlement is so annoying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.

My bad, I checked with another parent, there are 3 6th grade classes. Sorry about the confusion but each around 16-18.

FCPS needs to address these major discrepancies - my child's has four 6th graded classes of 25-30 children each. Incredibly unfair. We'd like one of your teachers that you don't need, thanks.

The classes are suppose to be split when they get to 31 students. 16-18 students per class would mean classes of at least 32 kids and a split. Your schools classes did not hit that 31 mark level so they were not split. That is the way the math works. It is why some schools end up with AAP or Gen Ed classes with 18 kids each while the other class has 25. The AAP or Gen Ed program ends up with classes of 31 or 32 kids and so need to e split. The other class has kids of 25 and they don't split. It is how the formula works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Franklin Sherman has a sizable special Ed student population, that is most probably the defining factor in small class sizes.

If it's a SPED center like a CSS site, then those kids will likely be in self-contained.

It it's not a sped center, then there's no reason why they would have more kids with IEPs then any other school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.

My bad, I checked with another parent, there are 3 6th grade classes. Sorry about the confusion but each around 16-18.

Fcps should move one of the teachers.

A non Title I school is not supposed to have class sizes that small.

Fewer than 60 kids in a grade should only have 2 classes in the upper 20s, not 3 classes in the teens.

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Anonymous wrote:My 6th graders have 16 kids in their class. This is in McLean pyramid. This has been the case (16-18) for last 3 yrs. lots of kids here go private do plenty of space in public.

How many classes are there?

2 6th grade classes.

And what is the school? You can't claim this and not name it.

Franklin Sherman elementary, McLean. Lots of kids in this pyramid go to privates.

My bad, I checked with another parent, there are 3 6th grade classes. Sorry about the confusion but each around 16-18.

FCPS needs to address these major discrepancies - my child's has four 6th graded classes of 25-30 children each. Incredibly unfair. We'd like one of your teachers that you don't need, thanks.

Someone addressed this below, but.. Take 3 classes of 18 kids, combine them and split to 2 classes, and that's 27 kids per class -- the same number you have. Moving that teacher would just put them in the position you are in.