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[quote=Anonymous]I think you are mis-analyzing the "1 of 200" kids.  Using Rosemary Hills as an example, there are about 650 students.  When you say your child is one of 200 or one of 300, it doesn't really matter from your child's perspective b/c they are actually 1 of 20-25 students b/c that's how many are in their class.  Someone mentioned lunch/recess and the chaos they imagined from being 1 of 200-300.  I have news for you!  When you are in a public school, every kid is one of 650-850.... however, they are not all eating lunch at the same time or on the playground at the same time.  They stagger the lunch/recess times b/c they don't make the cafeterias big enough to hold everyone.  It IS a plus to be in a school like Rosemary Hills (I'm not in that school or even in Md.), b/c the kids your little kindergartener are tangentially interacting with are closer in age than in a "normal" elementary school -- where there are also 650-850 kids.  In a "normal" elementary school, your shrimpy kindergartener (yes, I have one of those) is loosely mixing with 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders (hallways mainly).

A school like Rosemary Hills, that focusses on the lower elementary grades and has more of them IS ideal in many ways.  (Not so great for families of kids in upper elmentary and lower elementary, but great for the kids).  Having had 2 kids go through the lower elementary grades, I maintain my position that the size of the entire grade would make no difference to my child's experience.

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