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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in the neighborhood and chose to go private.  I'm glad we did only because we got terrific teacher to student ratios.  That said, Churchhill is a great school, especially if you get into AAP, but the classes can be more than 33.  I'm glad I put the money into small classes for the younger years but I sure would like that cash back right now!  (you do know that privates are very expensive here, right?)[/quote]

Average K size at Churchill Road this year 22.5 students.  Average for Grades 1-3 is 24.9 students.  Average for Grades 4-6 is 25.9 students.  So the averages are well above the FCPS averages, but there are other schools with higher averages, including Wolftrap and Flint Hill in Vienna, Canterbury Woods in Fairfax, and Stratford Landing in Alexandria.      [/quote]

K classes at Churchill are actually 25, 24, 24, & 25 this year.  I'm looking at an in-house Teacher/Class List with Student Count.  1-3 average is low too, I believe it's 26.5; 4-6 is 26.8 and that includes 5 classes at 30 or higher.  This is probably better than it's been in a couple years, but point is those averages make the class sizes sound better than they are.[/quote]

I'm looking at the county information.  Averages are averages.

http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/ElmClassSizeAvg2013.pdf[/quote]

Wouldn't be the first time the county's reported info. is wrong.  I have current accurate numbers at the school and (1) those averages you gave are low & incorrect and (2) even if they were correct, give a misimpression of how large many of the individual classes are.  [/quote]

I'm more inclined to believe the FCPS information than whatever you think you know.  You are an anonymous nobody who apparently doesn't understand what an average is.  :roll: [/quote]

I don't know what your angle is, we are all anonymous but assuming you and I are both telling the truth based on info we have access to: you seem to have no affiliation with the school or you wouldn't be citing the fcps website as your source. I am a current parent with both the directory and office supplied class count lists for PTA flyer copying purposes.  Maybe you work at gatehouse because that's usually who is pretending the fcps data is accurate and motivated to pretend the class sizes are not so bad. Parents actually at these schools have a perfect understanding of "averages" and also how statistics can be manipulated and used to mislead.[/quote]

There is nothing misleading about an average.  The data was of October 2013.  Since then the school has only added one student. [/quote]

There is definitely something misleading about incorrect data.[/quote]

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