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I'm hijacking this thread a bit. Sorry in advance.

All these discussions about class size numbers at these listed  schools or schools with similar SES are totally luck of the draw unless you are in a TITLE 1 school or school with High ESOL IN FFX county. If your child is in a school listed and you happen to have a class with a low 20s, you are incredibly lucky and you never know what the next year will bring. For instance, Marshall Road's 1st grade class last year all had classes of 29ish. This year they are 20ish because their numbers went over the tipping point. Lucky them! So the claim about Churchill averaging 21-25 is great, but buying a house in that school district is no way to guarantee a low class size or a high class size. AAP is no better - Oakton LLIV  class sizes are 32 this year for 3rd grade. The only way to guarantee an acceptable class size # which my child's school administrators thinks is 25 is to get the School Board to pass a measure that puts a better upper limit on the class size. Now I think Virginia says it can go up to 35....
Anyone know if FFX county has something else on the books that speaks to this?

Not to start an argument, but I really wish this had been the focus 2 years ago instead of full-day kindergarten. I personally think it would have been a better use of county resources. Having full day kindergarten with the same curriculum as the half-day is just adding time to fill up the day and not necessarily improving the level of instruction our children are receiving.  The real meat and bones of reading, writing, and math instruction in FFX county start in 1st grade in classes where there is no assistant, and in classes that routinely have 28, 29 and up to 30 kids.

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