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[quote=Anonymous]Overall teacher allocations are based on a ratio, I think it's 27.5 students to 1 teacher in grades 3-5 and something a little lower in K-2.  However, we all know you can't have a half a child in a classroom and that the students are not always equally spread out among the grades.  The principal receives an overall allocation of classroom teachers and has to make a plan for how to distribute them keeping basic guidelines in place.  I'm pretty sure you can't go over 32 students in a class, and all sections in a grade level have to be over that before a new teacher will be assigned.  Even then, if the numbers are lower in other grade levels, they may make the school reorganize before authorizing an additional teacher.  Principals do advocate for additional staffing, and sometimes it works out.  Typically, if it's close it doesn't work out until after the first week if school if it's a highly transient area.  They wait to see if everyone registered actually shows up first... [/quote]

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