Tuckahoe Elementary
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Anonymous
| Could any present Tuckahoe parents please weigh in on your happiness with the school/teachers/class sizes please. Appreciate your time and feedback! |
Anonymous
| FWIW, class sizes are capped by APS. If a particular grade gets to big, the school adds a new teacher. K-1 are capped at, I think, 22 or 23. 2-3 at around 25. 4-5 larger than that as the max. This is across APS at the elementary level, not sure about middle and HS how it works. |
Anonymous
| Tuckahoe Rocks! The number of classes per grade has diminished in the past 2years due to redistricting to Nottingham and McKinley. Parents are heavily involved; strong PTA. It won the Governor's award of excellence last year. What else do you want to know? |
Anonymous
| Pretty good about outdoor learning. The building has a center that is open -- that is where a little pond/waterfall is and where the mascot (Tessie the turtle) lives. We have been happy there. It is so much less crowded than it was. |
Anonymous
How many classes per grade in 1st/ elected for K? Thanks! |
Anonymous
| right now 4 K and 5 first, could change based on numbers. |
Anonymous
| We've been very happy there. We've been there for a long time and have seen a lot of changes, but it's always been great. |
Anonymous
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I'm the OP - thank you so much to everyone who has commented! A few more questions...
It doesn't look like Tuckahoe has an exemplary project - but it also looks like not all the schools do. Does it have an emphasis though? Also, is homework somewhat the same across all the APS? I read somewhere Discovery and maybe another school don't do homework till 4th grade. Any bullying issues? |
Anonymous
| Tuckahoe does have an exemplary project, the Discovery Schoolyard. Outdoor learning spaces infused into instruction, outstanding outdoor learning coordinator has been there a few years |
Anonymous
| Oh I didn't originally see that on their site but now i do - thank you, that sounds amazing. |
Anonymous
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We have not had any problems with bullying, but maybe someone else can chime in. In K, there was no homework (only reading), in 1st they have 10? words every week that they learn plus reading.
homework ramps up in 3rd grade with multiplication and other stuff. |
Anonymous
| The outdoor learning and focus is great. The kids tend to the garden, there is colonial day outside the log cabin, turtle mascots in the pond, etc. |