Does your 1st grader love school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How is that even possible? How can one county school have 21 kids in a class in first, and another have 30?? Is it title I?

Of course it's possible. They don't redraw boundaries and class configurations every year based on an incoming K class (wouldn't it be great if they did?!)
So pretend in a school there is typically 4 Kindergartens and they allocate budgeting for 4 K classes on the projection that 100 kids will enroll.
If only 90 kids enroll because of demographics or a new private school or redshirting or a random drop in fertility, they aren't going to move the school to 3 classes in August.
Likewise, if 110 kids enroll, they aren't going to add a teacher.
Clearly if the enrollment drops too far or spikes too high they'll make adjustments, but that's only when they really have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Virginia Run do any differentiation in grades 1-6?

PP here, again. There's not a Level IV AAP Center at Virginia Run, but they offer Level II and III services in-house. The Level IV Center is approx a mile down the road, though (Bull Run ES), so it's nice and close for families who have kids at both schools. I can't speak to what happens above 1st grade, but my son's class does differentiation (if that's the right word?) for reading/spelling, and they did it in K, as well. Some of the kids who need more intensive help with ESOL get pulled out during reading time from what I can tell, and they might get pulled out at other times also depending on their needs. I feel like I heard there was going to be math differentation in 1st grade starting at some point but don't quote me on that.