What were your elementary school class sizes like?

[Anonymous]

Just curious about how this has changed over time. I see a lot of concern over class size, but even the bigger classes have much smaller student/teacher ratios that was the case when I was a kid. Not sure if my school was an outlier or i that was the norm.

How many kids in an average elementary class, and what year were you born?

Me: 33 kids; 1975

[Anonymous]

Somewhere between 30 & 40 in the early years, down to 20 by 9th grade. Small private school. 1968

[Anonymous]

I found my kindergarten class picture from 1983 and there were just 12 kids in my class (lower middle class public school). My kid will likely have 24 or 26.

[Anonymous]

I was born in 1975 and we had 20 kids/class (K-6th grade) in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1975 and we had 20 kids/class (K-6th grade) in elementary school.

And this was an upper-middle class public school in case that matters

[Anonymous]

Are we talking grade or class here? I have a hard time believing there were 40 kids in a class in a small private school.

[Anonymous]

About 30 x 2 classrooms, parochial. 1967.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we talking grade or class here? I have a hard time believing there were 40 kids in a class in a small private school.

Thirty something. I don't recall the exact number, and it varied a bit year to year but it was definitely north of 30.

[Anonymous]

Private international school K-5th had 18-20 kids.
Private girls catholic school 6th-8th grade (in a foreign country) had 50-55 kids in each class.
Public high school in a small US town, maybe 24-28

[Anonymous]

High 20s or low 30s. Born 1982. Went to FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Born: 1965
Small, DC-area parochial 1st-8th: one class per grade, 18-20 kids per class, some years fewer

[Anonymous]

I was in elementary in the late 70's and early 80's I always remember having between 30-35 students in my classes.

I saw an elementary class picture of my mom's from the 50's and there were 38 kids in her class!

[Anonymous]

1980s - 15-22 in each class, with 2 teachers. Private school.

[Anonymous]

MCPS in the early 70s. 29 in K. 28 in 1st. I still have my class pictures.

I wonder if the difference between the large class then and the large classes today is the expectation of differentiation and inclusion. I remember being tracked in elementary school and the kids that needed extra attention or help were taken out of the classroom.

And of course there wasn't the emphasis on test taking like there is today. We had the 3rd and 5th grade assessments but we didn't do any practice tests or pre tests. It was a day or two and then we moved on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High 20s or low 30s. Born 1982. Went to FCPS.

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