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[quote=Anonymous]The general guideline in APS is that K and 1 should be capped at 24 when classes are formed, 2 and 3 should be capped at 26, and 4 and 5 should be capped at 27. When classes are formed is a key part of it, because if new students join the school the day before school starts or two months into the year and would push classes over the cap, the school isn't going to hire another teacher and completely shake up the classes to stay under the cap. There can be a significant variation in the number of students in a class at each grade level depending on where enrollment numbers fall relative to the cap -- if you have one school with 102 second graders and another with 106, the first school will have four classes of 25-26 kids each while the other school will have five classes of 21-22 kids each, because the second school has two more enrolled students than could be accommodated by 26-student classes.

Also, sometimes schools will set class sizes above the recommended caps for other reasons. For instance, I know of an instance where one grade level at a school started with two classes at the cap and one class a student over the cap because the would-be fourth teacher for the grade level was going through a medical crisis and they couldn't be sure the teacher would be in the classroom consistently. They had to keep the teacher on staff and couldn't get the funding from APS for an additional staff member, so admin made the decision that it would be better overall to have three larger classes rather than four smaller classes where one might have a very unstable year.[/quote]

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