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It's a big school. For instance, my friend told me that there were 27 Elsas in the k-2 Halloween parade!  [/quote]

This is an interesting measure of school size.:-)

But there could easily be 27 Elsas in the K-2 Halloween parade even if there were only one class of 25 in each grade. 25 x 3 = 75. Assume half girls, so 37 or 38 girls. 27/38 Elsas = 71% Elsas among the girls. I can definitely imagine that happening![/quote]

Class size is around 30, all grades.  But the number of classes per grade is not high.  Here is only review on Great Schools from last year:

When we first entered Roland Park Elementary School in 2003, it was a moderate-sized academically challenging neighborhood school. Our kids were happy and we felt blessed to have found one of the only decent schools in Baltimore City. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said 10 years later. In fact, we pulled our last child from Roland Park after 5th grade and transfered to private school. Through a combination of over-crowding, decline in academic rigor, poor school management on the part of Baltimore City Public Schools, terrible curriculum changes, and declining facilities, this school has had a fundamental negative shift during our 10 years of attendance. Teacher morale is low (I'm a former employee as well) and student behavior is intolerable (by my standards, which admittedly are high). Many great teachers continue to struggle on and do the best they can - my hats are off to them, as they are the one bright spot in this once great school.

YMMV OP.  But this thread should give you a sense of what questions to ask.[/quote]

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