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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I still don't understand why the county allows this if it has been a consistent issue. For those who have lived in the area for awhile--how many years has it been like this? I'm relatively new to the area so I don't really know the history.

I actually work at another school in the county and our classrooms are more than full. Some years it's a struggle to find enough desks for all of the students. I was aware that Cold Spring is a small school, but I didn't realize that the class sizes would be so low when schools in surrounding neighborhoods are overcrowded. I guess it's a good thing for Cold Spring students, but it doesn't seem to follow the "rules" that other schools have to follow. [/quote]

What rules are those? The caps on class sizes are the same for all non-Title I schools. If the cap for kindergarten class size was 24 this year, and the whole school has 32 kindergarteners (as Cold Spring did this year), then there will be two classes with 16 kindergarteners each. That's not special rules. It's just math.

At my child's elementary school (not in Potomac), there are 56 first-graders this year, so there are two classes with 19 first-graders and one class with 18 first-graders -- small classes. The cap for second grade next year is 28, so if all 56 first-graders come back for second grade next year at this school, and nobody else is expected to move to the school, there will be two classes with 28 second-graders each -- large classes.[/quote]

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