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:roll: 80 class sections. Looking at the list of larger classes and from my kids' experience your worst experience with class size is likely to be a couple larger (upper 20s) classes per year, e.g. a freshman might have a larger class for Intensified Alg 2/Trig and AP World History. My senior last year had most classes under 20 students.

At WL the large size = crowded hallways and a crappy cafeteria but when it comes to the classroom experience and my kids' experiences with their teachers, it's been good. If you aren't willing to move or go private, try to find a way to be positive for your kid. You might be surprised.[/quote]

No the list is only counting core and foreign language classes. There very well could be many other non-core classes that suffer from excess class size.

And they are adding 200 students to the next freshman class. [/quote]

They are also adding more classroom space. I went to a HS where the standard class was 30 and it was fine. I just don't get the handwringing over this. My kids generally have a 1-2 classes that are as big as 30, more in the mid to low 20s and the occasional <20. Electives are often smaller. DS took a cool geospatial analysis class last year with 15 kids.

I agree that the large size has its negatives and I wish they'd figure out a better way to handle it. But the impacts, in our experience, have not been felt at the classroom level.

It is frustrating that they have not released the full class size report, just that >27 list. The full report is so much more informative.[/quote]

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