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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This won't get you very useful information. MCPS has countywide class size caps. So each year, you divide the number of students into classes as close to the caps as possible. Class sizes will vary from year to year depending on how many kids there are. [/quote]

OP here and at the risk of sounding like an idiot - what happens if they are over the class size cap? For example, enrollment for 2nd grade is 132, there are 4 2nd grade teachers in the directory so works out to 32 students per class. Official cap for a non-focus 2nd grade is 28.  What do they do with surplus? Are they allowed to carry on as is?

Btw, hats off to everybody who took the time to comment "it's simple math" without pointing out where to get the missing data points. Utterly unhelpful. Obviously, I didn't know about separate school site with a detailed directory (and thanks to the PP who mentioned it, although that comment didn't really need to be mean spirited either. I don't have children yet, I am just trying to sort out where to buy a house). [/quote]

You need to be careful looking at schools based on class sizes.  We are at a school smaller than Wood Acres, but had 27 children in my child's class last year.  This year, they got enough enrollment for an additional class, and now we only have 20 in a class!  They hired an additional teacher (because they had sufficient enrollment by the end of these summer) and formed an extra class.  However, there are other grades at our school that have 28 in each class, and did not meet the threshold to add another class.  This has nothing to do with the size of the school, but only depends on the number of kids in each grade, divided by the max capacities for that grade.  The same can happen at Wood Acres.  Each year the classes can be completely different sizes.  Once it is the middle of the year, it is hard for schools to get approved to add a teacher, and if kids move in, you can end up with classes that are beyond the "cap."  [/quote]

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