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If you pulled those stats from the School at a Glance I would encourage you to look at it with a grain of salt.  The statistic is generated by taking the total number of students and dividing it by the total number of staff, regardless of whether or not the staff members are certified teachers.  So it includes paraeducators and special ed. paras.  It also assumes that all teachers are teaching classes that are the same size, which is not true.  Special education teachers will teach smaller class sizes.  Speech language pathologists provide pull-out support but their presence does not affect the overall class size.  Same thing for ESOL teachers and specialists in ES.

A K - 2 school has 600 students and could easily have 40 staff members with teaching certification, but they don't have 15 students per class.  Instead they probably have been 20 - 25 per teacher and the rest of the staff are a combination of special educators, ESOL teachers and specialists (PE, music, art etc.)[/quote]

No, that is incorrect. This is how the average class size is calculated for middle school and high school: "The regular student enrollment divided by the number of classes, excluding special education, reported for two areas: English (required courses) and all other academic subjects (other English, mathematics, world languages, science, and social studies)."

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/glance/definitions.aspx[/quote]

So K - 2 wasn't a great example (thanks for the link BTW I didn't realize that the definition of class size was different for ES and MS and HS).  For that reason I would guess that the class sizes on the School at a Glance documents are more accurate for ES than for MS and HS.[/quote]

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