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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you are at a focus or Title 1 school, then researching class sizes really won't help you.  All schools in the county have the same max guidelines.

For example, at our small school (we are one of the smaller ones in the county) some years the Kindergarten has had 18 kids in a class and other years 26.  It all depends on enrollment that year.  Once the enrollment reaches a certain size they can request an additional class/teacher.  So at our School, my child had 26 in Kindergarten, but then a lot more children enrolled the next year for first grade, so they added a section, and we ended up in a class of 21.

You can look at general enrollment an whether a school is larger or smaller as that usually stays somewhat constant.  At a small school you can still have huge classes, but instead of having 150 Kindergartners at recess and lunch you might only have 60.

As for how learning happens, some schools use para educators or parent volunteers.  Regardless, there are a lot of worksheets. [/quote]

This is a really important point.  One or two kids coming or going can drastically change the class size numbers if it means an extra class gets added.  At my son's school, his class is the largest of all the grades, but his actual class size is the smallest because they are so large that they tipped over into the extra classroom.
And there's really no way to predict that from year to year.[/quote]

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