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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]5th grade, Ashlawn. 30, maybe 31. It is ridiculous. [/quote]

This is suspect.  How many classes are there in the 5th grade?  There were 114 5th graders according to the October report.[/quote]

And their website lists seven teachers on the 5th grade page. One of them appears to be a SpEd teacher for an inclusion class, but even if another one isn't a full classroom teacher and there are only five classes, that would be 22-23 kids per class.[/quote]

Yes, internet stranger, you clearly know more about my kid's class than I do from the not-recently-updated webpage.  :roll:

There are 4 homerooms in 5th grade at Ashlawn this year. My DC's class started with 27. DC told me 4 more kids transferred in. I assume that they'd spread the kids out between the classrooms, so would have guessed the other classes would also have close to 30, but maybe my kid's teacher just got screwed. Or is crazy and likes taking on new students. That I don't know.

At the end of September the school sent an email saying they'd hired a new 5th grade teacher, quote "Due to the class size and increased enrollment in fifth grade as the year has progressed." Unfortunately they decided not to regroup into new smaller homerooms and instead the new teacher is there to help the other four with 2 of the subjects. I honestly don't get how that works logistically. Personally I think they didn't regroup homerooms because they didn't have an empty classroom. I can't imagine any kid would prefer being in an overflowing class instead of a smaller one, even if you had to get new classmates. I also suspect it has to do with there not being another teacher for the new teacher to share the subjects with (the teachers specialize in certain subjects and the kids switch classes half way through the day. I assume that is true in other schools but since I just know ours I am not sure). [/quote]

We are at Ashlawn as well. I’ve heard that all of the 5th classes have at least 28 this year so I don’t think it’s just your kids class. There were quite a few kids who registered the first week of school too. We get a lot of Foreign Service families that end up in housing in Ballston/Virginia Square area.

I know kindergarten has 5 classes and most are at 25. One has fewer kids but is an inclusion class and doesn’t have many less. Firs grade has 6 classes at 21ish each.

From what I’ve heard, the 2-4 classes were ranging between 22 and 25 at the beginning of the year. I know one other grade has six classes as well. 
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