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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Used to be the 4th grade was 39 boys.  From 22-28 came from Beauvoir (and about 65% on average).  The class size is fixed.  It happens that this year the 4th grade was increased to 42 boys (one more for each of the three classes) and next year the 4th grade will have 45 boys.  If Beauvoir doesn't increase class size similarly, there will be a fairly high number of spots for non-Beauvoir kids (in the range of 20 spots).[/quote]

Does anyone know STA's plans of increasing the class sizes by one student each year? Is this across all entry point grades? I understand that more students = more tuition income, but at what point will they cap the class size?  One reason we are considering private school (vs public school) is the smaller class size.  Private school is less appealing to us when the class sizes keep increasing.  How do current STA parents feel about this? Also, I'd be interested in how current private school parents feel about the increased class size. We're used to 25 kids/class with one for most subjects teacher.  Our son's math class breaks out into smaller groups, so it's about 18 kids/class - not much bigger than the STA class size, IMO.[/quote]

Public schools quote average class sizes but there is extreme variation in each school .   The higher the socio economic level of the school the higher the class size.  State maximums in Virgina are about 34.  If you are in a non special needs school with only 25 and 18 for math consider yourself lucky.   especially if those numbers include special ed and they have extra staff in the regulr teachers classroom to support them and if that number is before they have any special ed pull-outs.[/quote]

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