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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did this post go from congratulating a principal for a well-deserved honor to arguing about how many students attend the school?[/quote]

Some posters want to diminish her success and the school by inventing criticisms despite the lack of credible documentation.[/quote]

Isn’t it the opposite? To underscore how difficult it’s been with such an enormous number of kindergartners and she has rise the challenge? Which is basically what the article said.[/quote]

No, it isn't. My kid is in K there. Their class size is in the low 20s. There are fewer K classes today than when my older child went through there a few years ago. I wouldn't rely on DCUM gossip but on more credible sources like the at-a-glance info.[/quote]

It’s correct that there used to occasionally be even more classes than they have in kindergarten now (9), but that’s because it used to be a focus school and the class sizes were much smaller (around 16-18 kids per class). Class sizes are now around 26-27 per class. I think there may be a few classes out of the nine that *only* have 25. My kid is in a kindergarten class at TPES with 27 kids.

The “at a glance” info is accurate but the most recent data is from 2022.

It’s been extremely impressive to see how Dr Gadsden has handled this very challenging year, as well as the past few (also extremely challenging) years. I recently talked to Dr Gadsden and she’s hopeful the largest K class size next year will be 24 kids max. [/quote]

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