Post your class size and grade

[Anonymous]

Oh I see - the old red/green zone maps. Not school by school.

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Anonymous wrote:Our fifth grade has a wide variance. I noticed one class had 18 but one had 27.

Can you advocate that the kids be evenly distributed among 5th grade? I'd email the principal with my concern.

Doesn't your 5th grade switch a lot? We had 31 in 5th grade a few years ago, but that was just a homeroom. They switched and it evened things out for parts of the day. (Didn't help the poor teacher who had to grade 31 essays, but she was so fabulous that she could handle her 31 better than some of the others could manage 26.)

[Anonymous]

damn you cold spring

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ashburton. 5th and 3rd. 36 and 31!!!

Even with your modular addition? Is that a compacted math class or is that really a 5th grade homeroom?!

These large class sizes will surely trigger an additional classroom being added (and ultimately smaller classes), right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:damn you cold spring

My kid is at Cold Spring 5th. Two sections have 28 kids in each class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:damn you cold spring

My kid is at Cold Spring 5th. Two sections have 28 kids in each class.

So is 21:17 a troll? I was wondering.

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Anonymous wrote:5th grade- 30 kids.

MCPS

What school?

Greenwood

[Anonymous]

1st Grade 17 kids. Focus school

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Anonymous wrote:damn you cold spring

My kid is at Cold Spring 5th. Two sections have 28 kids in each class.

So is 21:17 a troll? I was wondering.

Might not. Cold Spring is one of the CES centers so the # of students might vary depending on the class.

[Anonymous]

5th grade-29 kids, BCC cluster ES

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our fifth grade has a wide variance. I noticed one class had 18 but one had 27.

Can you advocate that the kids be evenly distributed among 5th grade? I'd email the principal with my concern.

Doesn't your 5th grade switch a lot? We had 31 in 5th grade a few years ago, but that was just a homeroom. They switched and it evened things out for parts of the day. (Didn't help the poor teacher who had to grade 31 essays, but she was so fabulous that she could handle her 31 better than some of the others could manage 26.)

Yes they do switch a lot and I have no idea about how those numbers fall out. So it may even out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ashburton. 5th and 3rd. 36 and 31!!!

Even with your modular addition? Is that a compacted math class or is that really a 5th grade homeroom?!

These large class sizes will surely trigger an additional classroom being added (and ultimately smaller classes), right?

The problem with some schools (I'm looking at you, Bethesda ES) is that there is literally no more room for more classes or more portables. They already did an addition on the remaining property available, and have already outgrown the school. It's really outrageous that this is permitted.

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Anonymous wrote:Grade 2
15

East Silver Spring

ESS is title 1 or just close?

I checked. Not title 1 and hasn't been since at least 2014 (didn't bother looking back further). I *think* TPES also has roughly comparable sizes I think? and really not Title 1.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/dtecps/title1/schools.aspx

It’s focus, not title 1

I've been searching for a list of focus schools. Is there one published?

NP here. I've never found one. They switch from year to year depending on FARMS rates. I've seen schools move on and off the Title I list, but never seen a full list of Focus Schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ashburton. 5th and 3rd. 36 and 31!!!

Even with your modular addition? Is that a compacted math class or is that really a 5th grade homeroom?!

These large class sizes will surely trigger an additional classroom being added (and ultimately smaller classes), right?

The problem with some schools (I'm looking at you, Bethesda ES) is that there is literally no more room for more classes or more portables. They already did an addition on the remaining property available, and have already outgrown the school. It's really outrageous that this is permitted.

+1 Somerset Elementary School too. There's a "study" underway to figure out what to do with the overcrowding, but MCPS has 6 years to come up with a solution, and meanwhile kids are crammed like sardines and there's no more teacher's lounge or music room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cold Spring - 13 in 4th, 11 in 2nd. Glorious.

isn't Cold Spring way under capacity?