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[quote=Anonymous]There are two different things-school size and class size.  Which is the one you're concerned about?

You can't do much about class size unless you decide to go private-- it's a standard formula throughout the county.  It's true that in a given year and given grade, some schools may have larger classes than others but it's just a matter of how the math works out (if they tip just past the cap they open a new class so all classes end up at the small end).

But you can't really predict that for a given school/grade ahead of time.

The exception, as a pp noted, is if you move to a focus or title 1 school. The class size range is smaller in those schools because it's thought the kids need more attention.  They can be great schools, though.  My older kid went to a focus school and then we moved so my older kid went to a very wealthy school.  And I liked the focus school better and loved the small class.

Don't lose sight, though, of the middle school and high school.  Most focus schools matriculate up to weaker MSs and HSs.  When your kids are young, it's easy to lose sight of this.  But where you're going to *really* care about school quality (and safety, and culture) is in the upper grades.  So if you're serious about making a decision to move because of schools, start with selecting the HS you want (I'd wait til after this boundary study is done), and then look at ESs and MSs.  And compare all all three levels.  [/quote]

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