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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe East Bethesda kids go to Rosemary Hills for K-2, then either Bethesda ES or NCC ES for, respectively,  4-5 or 4-6; they don't go to CCES.  Town of CC does go to CCES. [/quote]

This is incorrect.  CCES is a 3-6 school and Rosemary Hills is the K-2 school that feeds it. I think RHPS/CCES is a wonderful option but if OP is fixated on small classes, then she should know that RHPS tends to have classes on the larger end of the spectrum.[/quote]

Basically all schools -- Somerset, Chevy Chase, Bradley and Rosemary Hills -- will have similar class sizes.  If some kids end up in a "smaller" class it will only be by one or two students and it will just be a quirk of how many kids are enrolled in a given grade and year.  These class size numbers are set by the county and teachers are apportioned to schools on the basis of the standard class size (within a certain range, again, given the quirks of enrollment).  One exception might be how these schools choose individually to use their "allotment" of teachers.  At Rosemary Hills, kids are regrouped from their "homerooms" for reading and math.  The school uses other teachers in the school to help lower the number of kids during instructional time in the class.  I help in my son's reading class weekly.  His class has about 20 kids during the reading block.  The choice to do this lies at the discretion of the principal only.

The only schools which have significantly smaller class sizes are schools which have high poverty rates -- they get extra Title I funds and may have classes more like 17 for most of the day. [/quote]

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