Class sizes in specific schools ?

[Anonymous]

How do you find out class sizes? I've looked at MCPS website info for the school, it has # of students for each grade, but does not list # of teachers by grade - only totals. PTA doesn't have that info either.

Basically, I am trying to find out how overcrowded are Wood Acres/Pyle/Whitman are at the moment.

[Anonymous]

Crowded.

Look at the numbers of kids and go on their site to see how many teachers they have per grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crowded.

Look at the numbers of kids and go on their site to see how many teachers they have per grade.

They don't have # of teachers per grade, as I clearly stated in my OP. They have totals per school, which for Wood Acres works out to average of 19 students per teacher, for all grades. But in reality it's not like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you find out class sizes? I've looked at MCPS website info for the school, it has # of students for each grade, but does not list # of teachers by grade - only totals. PTA doesn't have that info either.

Basically, I am trying to find out how overcrowded are Wood Acres/Pyle/Whitman are at the moment.

They are deemed overcrowded by parents who want 15 kids per class. In actual fact they are not overcrowded. Wood acres has just had a rebuild. Pyle and Whitman are due for the same in the next few years.

[Anonymous]

I'm no fancy Bethesda resident, but our school out here in ganginfestlandia has an online directory of teachers. I use my admittedly rudimentary counting skills to count the number of teachers listed per grade.

Thankfully there are no more than I can count on one hand, otherwise I might lose track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm no fancy Bethesda resident, but our school out here in ganginfestlandia has an online directory of teachers. I use my admittedly rudimentary counting skills to count the number of teachers listed per grade.

Thankfully there are no more than I can count on one hand, otherwise I might lose track.

This can be tricky in some cases, though. RM enrolled an additional 150 students just in the first two weeks of school. An entire extra section of honors English 9 was created literally days before first day of school because our numbers were, on average, 32-33 kids per class. Now they're more like 28 per class.

[Anonymous]

while you can figure things out with basic math at the elementary level, it really changes once you get to the middle and high school levels and you're dealing with electives, leveled classes, etc.

You need to talk to people who have kids in those schools now to get accurate reports, but even those will only be correct for that one kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:while you can figure things out with basic math at the elementary level, it really changes once you get to the middle and high school levels and you're dealing with electives, leveled classes, etc.

You need to talk to people who have kids in those schools now to get accurate reports, but even those will only be correct for that one kid.

OP seems curious about Wood Acres right now, which can definitely be solved with basic math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm no fancy Bethesda resident, but our school out here in ganginfestlandia has an online directory of teachers. I use my admittedly rudimentary counting skills to count the number of teachers listed per grade.

Thankfully there are no more than I can count on one hand, otherwise I might lose track.

This can be tricky in some cases, though. RM enrolled an additional 150 students just in the first two weeks of school. An entire extra section of honors English 9 was created literally days before first day of school because our numbers were, on average, 32-33 kids per class. Now they're more like 28 per class.

Wow that is an unbelievably huge increase for a school of just over 2,000 kids...and I assume there was already an increase before school started.

[Anonymous]

Dear clueless OP:

Go to the school's actual website---not the mcps at a glance report---and click on the staff link. Then put on your thinking cap and count how many K teachers they have, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear clueless OP:

Go to the school's actual website---not the mcps at a glance report---and click on the staff link. Then put on your thinking cap and count how many K teachers they have, etc.

NP.. but that doesn't tell you how many kids there are in each class for the current year. You'd need to call the front office to find that out.

[Anonymous]

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/woodacreses/staff/directory.aspx#Kindergarten

Four K classes. Count all the teachers k thru five and you can come up with an average class size based on last years numbers.

Or simply ask a neighbor how many kids are in the class.

Anecdotally, the class sizes in the W school pyramids are much larger than other parts of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear clueless OP:

Go to the school's actual website---not the mcps at a glance report---and click on the staff link. Then put on your thinking cap and count how many K teachers they have, etc.

NP.. but that doesn't tell you how many kids there are in each class for the current year. You'd need to call the front office to find that out.

Then do that. And recognize that next year will be different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/woodacreses/staff/directory.aspx#Kindergarten

Four K classes. Count all the teachers k thru five and you can come up with an average class size based on last years numbers.

Or simply ask a neighbor how many kids are in the class.

Anecdotally, the class sizes in the W school pyramids are much larger than other parts of the county.

No, not true. RM cluster ES class sizes (except twinbrook which is a focus or title 1 school) are HUGE. and in many cases, larger than the neighboring Wootton cluster ES schools.

[Anonymous]

This won't get you very useful information. MCPS has countywide class size caps. So each year, you divide the number of students into classes as close to the caps as possible. Class sizes will vary from year to year depending on how many kids there are.