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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.

Piney Branch is a focus school but most classes there range from 25-30. I don't think there are rooms for additional classes even if there's money for more teachers.

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

isn't Cold Spring way under capacity?

I think they coalesce different grades together due to this fact.

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What some people are not understanding, is that it can really vary year to year and within a school. This is public school- they do not cap enrollment. So it is quite possible that one year at Cold Spring classes can have 15 kids and another year 30. It depends on how many enroll and what the allocation is. Just because a school is small, does not mean the classes are small. Often the small schools end up with large classes.

We are at a small highly regarded Bethesda area Elementary. One year my child had 27 kids in a class, and the next year more students enrolled so they were able to add an additional section and have 20 students in each class (but one more class than they had previously). This year the second grade has 29 students in a class. Despite the county guidelines, MCPS will not allocate another teacher to the school to create an additional class.

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Anonymous wrote:What some people are not understanding, is that it can really vary year to year and within a school. This is public school- they do not cap enrollment. So it is quite possible that one year at Cold Spring classes can have 15 kids and another year 30. It depends on how many enroll and what the allocation is. Just because a school is small, does not mean the classes are small. Often the small schools end up with large classes.

We are at a small highly regarded Bethesda area Elementary. One year my child had 27 kids in a class, and the next year more students enrolled so they were able to add an additional section and have 20 students in each class (but one more class than they had previously). This year the second grade has 29 students in a class. Despite the county guidelines, MCPS will not allocate another teacher to the school to create an additional class.

I think these decisions are affected by the overall size of the school/grade. If you have one 2nd grade with 29 kids, and you add a teacher, you have two classes of 14/15. If you have four classes of 29 2nd graders, and you add a teacher, you have five classes of 23-24. 14-15 students is extremely low for an MCPS non-Title 1, non-Focus class. 23 is pretty normal.

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

Not so glorious from a social perspective when your kid doesn't have anything in common with the other kids in their class and there's not many to choose from i.e. if you're a boy then there are only around 5 other boys in the class. Or when there's only one teacher who teaches a grade level and he/she may be a terrible fit style wise for your kid. My friend had that exact issue at Cold Spring and her kid was miserable. She moved to an area with a school that isn't underpopulated before her second kid started Kindergarten and they're much happier now.

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22 - 1st grade - Takoma Park Elementary

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

What did the Principal say about 36?

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

Not so glorious from a social perspective when your kid doesn't have anything in common with the other kids in their class and there's not many to choose from i.e. if you're a boy then there are only around 5 other boys in the class. Or when there's only one teacher who teaches a grade level and he/she may be a terrible fit style wise for your kid. My friend had that exact issue at Cold Spring and her kid was miserable. She moved to an area with a school that isn't underpopulated before her second kid started Kindergarten and they're much happier now.

Oh please. The best private schools have those type of ratios and it is great. The grades will eat and play at recess all together so there are plenty of friends. And school isn't social hour and you can't request teachers anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow really dispels the notion the classroom are simply stuffed. Where are the big ones?

27 in K - is that big enough for you?

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

I call bullshit on the 11 in 2nd grade - unless there is only 11 kids in all of 2nd grade. There is no split up that shows allocations less than 15 for those grades.

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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.

That is the enrichment program where kids are brought in from all over. They take two sections of 28 kids. There aren't that many in actual Cold Spring.

Do you know they could actually close Cold Spring and move everyone of those kids into Beverly Farms and they would STILL be under enrolled. Ridiculous that Beverly. Cold, Wayside, etc... continue to run and get new buildings for a handful of kids while other areas of MCPS are busting at the seams.

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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.

That is the enrichment program where kids are brought in from all over. They take two sections of 28 kids. There aren't that many in actual Cold Spring.

Do you know they could actually close Cold Spring and move everyone of those kids into Beverly Farms and they would STILL be under enrolled. Ridiculous that Beverly. Cold, Wayside, etc... continue to run and get new buildings for a handful of kids while other areas of MCPS are busting at the seams.

Are you a parent at any of the schools you mentioned, or have entered the school and examine it to know?

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

Not so glorious from a social perspective when your kid doesn't have anything in common with the other kids in their class and there's not many to choose from i.e. if you're a boy then there are only around 5 other boys in the class. Or when there's only one teacher who teaches a grade level and he/she may be a terrible fit style wise for your kid. My friend had that exact issue at Cold Spring and her kid was miserable. She moved to an area with a school that isn't underpopulated before her second kid started Kindergarten and they're much happier now.

Oh please. The best private schools have those type of ratios and it is great. The grades will eat and play at recess all together so there are plenty of friends. And school isn't social hour and you can't request teachers anyway.

I can see how a kid can be miserable in a class that is very small. For private schools, teachers are can be fired a lot easily. At our MCPS school, there are a couple of teachers who are just notoriously BAD -- think you tubing in school, playing video games, not at all organize, and yelling at kids. The school just ends up moving them to different classes but can't seem to fire them.

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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.

That is the enrichment program where kids are brought in from all over. They take two sections of 28 kids. There aren't that many in actual Cold Spring.

Do you know they could actually close Cold Spring and move everyone of those kids into Beverly Farms and they would STILL be under enrolled. Ridiculous that Beverly. Cold, Wayside, etc... continue to run and get new buildings for a handful of kids while other areas of MCPS are busting at the seams.

Are you a parent at any of the schools you mentioned, or have entered the school and examine it to know?

Yeah I dont really get this. I have friends at BF and Wayside and their classes are in the 23-26 range like most others.