APS: how many are in your child's class?

[Anonymous]

Thru try to cap it at 21 or 22. But if they have kids registering after the school start they have to take them. While its not ideal i think its legal

[Anonymous]

My child at Williamsburg (pretty crowded right now) has no more than 26/27 in his classes. 31 even with a helper teacher seems like a lot of 5th graders in one room.

[Anonymous]

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nonymous wrote:



30! Those are Fairfax numbers. Never heard of that. My child never had that many even in middle school classes.


Not so anymore. The middle school classes are even bigger than 30.


What? My DS reports less then 20 in each.

Must depend on the middle school.

[Anonymous]

19 in K (had teacher and an aide); 20 in 1st (started at 19 but new kid arrived after school year started).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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nonymous wrote:



30! Those are Fairfax numbers. Never heard of that. My child never had that many even in middle school classes.


Not so anymore. The middle school classes are even bigger than 30.


What? My DS reports less then 20 in each.

Must depend on the middle school.

The class size report shows very few middle school classes with more than 30 and those are generally electives like theater, band, etc. HS classes tend to be a little bigger but still rarely 30+

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Class-Size-Report-2017-18.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does Ashlawn keep screwing up its staffing so bad? It’s not like they’re the only school where families come and go.

Great question, I wish I knew. Or rather, I wish they knew how they kept screwing it up and stopped it.

Ashlawn has had over 50 students show up since the first day of school that weren’t registered previously or expected. There are no empty spaces to add additional classrooms. It’s not the administration’s fault.

[Anonymous]

Ashlawn needs capacity relief pronto! Hope the opening of Reed will help with that.

[Anonymous]

30! Those are Fairfax numbers. Never heard of that. My child never had that many even in middle school classes.


Not so anymore. The middle school classes are even bigger than 30.


What? My DS reports less then 20 in each.



Must depend on the middle school.


The class size report shows very few middle school classes with more than 30 and those are generally electives like theater, band, etc. HS classes tend to be a little bigger but still rarely 30+

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Class-Size-Report-2017-18.pdf

I'm talking about 30 per class in English and Math, not theater and band.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ashlawn needs capacity relief pronto! Hope the opening of Reed will help with that.

Ashlawn’s going to get a fully boundary redraw in 2020, and odds are almost no one who currently attends from outside the walk zone will still be going to Ashlawn when Reed opens.

[Anonymous]

Great. Hopefully Reed will take some of those Ashlawn kids. Or Reed will take some McKinley walkers and make room for Ashlawn kids at McKinley. Reed will be helpful to relieve Glebe as well that has been overcapacity for a long time. It looks to me that Reed should be taking a ton of kids to the south of Washington Boulevard. Good news!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great. Hopefully Reed will take some of those Ashlawn kids. Or Reed will take some McKinley walkers and make room for Ashlawn kids at McKinley. Reed will be helpful to relieve Glebe as well that has been overcapacity for a long time. It looks to me that Reed should be taking a ton of kids to the south of Washington Boulevard. Good news!

There will be a good amount of relief north of 50, but Ashlawn will probably pick up a bunch of the excess population APS is leaving in Abingdon and Barcroft this round too, so it will be less relief than people are expecting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

30! Those are Fairfax numbers. Never heard of that. My child never had that many even in middle school classes.


Not so anymore. The middle school classes are even bigger than 30.


What? My DS reports less then 20 in each.



Must depend on the middle school.


The class size report shows very few middle school classes with more than 30 and those are generally electives like theater, band, etc. HS classes tend to be a little bigger but still rarely 30+

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Class-Size-Report-2017-18.pdf

I'm talking about 30 per class in English and Math, not theater and band.

According to the class size report there were no middle school English or Math classes with 30+ kids last year. The largest is 28. 30 would be really unusual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

30! Those are Fairfax numbers. Never heard of that. My child never had that many even in middle school classes.


Not so anymore. The middle school classes are even bigger than 30.


What? My DS reports less then 20 in each.



Must depend on the middle school.


The class size report shows very few middle school classes with more than 30 and those are generally electives like theater, band, etc. HS classes tend to be a little bigger but still rarely 30+

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Class-Size-Report-2017-18.pdf

I'm talking about 30 per class in English and Math, not theater and band.

According to the class size report there were no middle school English or Math classes with 30+ kids last year. The largest is 28. 30 would be really unusual.

That was last year. What about this year? Enrollment has increased significantly this year at some middle schools. Jefferson is 1138 v. 1045 at the end of last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great. Hopefully Reed will take some of those Ashlawn kids. Or Reed will take some McKinley walkers and make room for Ashlawn kids at McKinley. Reed will be helpful to relieve Glebe as well that has been overcapacity for a long time. It looks to me that Reed should be taking a ton of kids to the south of Washington Boulevard. Good news!

There will be a good amount of relief north of 50, but Ashlawn will probably pick up a bunch of the excess population APS is leaving in Abingdon and Barcroft this round too, so it will be less relief than people are expecting.

I haven’t been watching this current round of changes but I don’t understand how Ashlawn could pick up kids from Abingdon. Barcroft maybe but that seems like the boundary would have to be sillier than it is now...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great. Hopefully Reed will take some of those Ashlawn kids. Or Reed will take some McKinley walkers and make room for Ashlawn kids at McKinley. Reed will be helpful to relieve Glebe as well that has been overcapacity for a long time. It looks to me that Reed should be taking a ton of kids to the south of Washington Boulevard. Good news!

There will be a good amount of relief north of 50, but Ashlawn will probably pick up a bunch of the excess population APS is leaving in Abingdon and Barcroft this round too, so it will be less relief than people are expecting.

I haven’t been watching this current round of changes but I don’t understand how Ashlawn could pick up kids from Abingdon. Barcroft maybe but that seems like the boundary would have to be sillier than it is now...

Ashlawn pulls from Carlin Spring, Carlin Spring pulls from Abingdon and Barcroft.