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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]are any of the good high schools in the area fewer than 400 kids a class? It seems that every time I hear of a topnotch school--and our choice in DC is really only Wilson--it is 600 kids a class. That seems insanely large. Why can't a school offer things like Linear ALgebra or AP Physics without being that big?

We're in the city so perhaps I haven't heard of good schools in the burbs except of course, TJ, BLair, etc. the big programs that get national attention. Suggestions? 600 seems like your kid would be lost..[/quote]

PP is correct about the connection between school size and class offerings. Small schools just don't have the budget to offer classes that only a few students would take. Large high schools are the norm in the surrounding counties as well. Whitman, Churchill, Wootton etc. in MoCo all exceed 500 students/grade and have done so for more than 20 years. I hear that VA schools are similarly sized. As for DC options, what about School Without Walls or a charter high school like Latin?[/quote]

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