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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]in touring parochial and Catholic schools, I've seen low ratios published online but when touring during the school day saw significantly more kids in each classroom! One school advertises 14:1 and the 2 classes we saw were more like 20-22. The only school I saw with class sizes of 12-14 actually appears to be struggling financially and I think they would have class sizes of 20 if they could fill the seats!  I know it probably varies by grade, but I can't understand how there can be such a big diff between published and actual ratios.[/quote]

Because they count the aides. So, a class of 28 has a teacher and an aide and now the ratio is 28:2 or 14:1.[/quote]

There were no aides in the classrooms I looked at. Do you mean for the kindergarten classes? Is it because there are several teachers like Spanish, 2 PE teachers, Art, and none of those teachers have their own homeroom classes... so the ratio goes down? [/quote]

Look at the school directory to see how many aides they have per grade. [/quote]

That's a good tip, I'll do that. Are aides that common in elementary school? I haven't seen them past preK and maybe K.[/quote]

I've been in several parochial schools and the aides were common until 4th or 5th. In preschool and K they may have a dedicated aide then maybe 1st or 2nd there would be a shared aide. It depends. But they can get away with a higher ratio because there isn't a wide range of abilities and behaviors in the classroom.[/quote]

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