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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP but I'm confused about the limitations of an IB high-school. How does it being small and IB differ from being a general education small school, for example? On the surface it sounds like small classes would be a plus. [/quote]

This doesn’t mean classes are smaller.  A small school means fewer course options and fewer sections of each class offered.  This creates schedule limitations and your kid might have to choose between class A and B because there is only one section and they are offered at the same time.  [/quote]

Class sizes are about 40% less in FCCPS than FCPS based on my child's experience and friends in FCPS. The kids enrolled is about half the size of all the other high schools, so they can pull it off. [/quote]

I don't think that's true -- I remember when my older child started in her FCPS elementary school with a class size of 24, we were told by friends that Mt Daniel had 9 kindergarten classes that were 20 students each. Kindergartens in FCPS vary drastically. My middle child had a class that was 27 kid and my youngest's was 21.[/quote]

FCCPS planning factors are 24 students for grades 5th and above, and 22 for 4th grade and under.  
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2J5hRFluyA_NF9aRXRCQUlCWW8/view?resourcekey=0-I8Lh5bU3_SrvkIdHW9S1kA

APS has 24 for K & 1, 26 for 2nd and 3rd, 27 for 4th and 5th grade, and does allow above 27 for 6th and above.  That is different.
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/07/FINAL-Class-Size-Report-2022-23.pdf

40 percent smaller is an exaggeration- but FCCPS does have palpably smaller class sizes than the surrounding districts.

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