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[quote=Anonymous]Several posts have mentioned SSI running a 5 of 8 schedule, and the TPMS scheduling committee did indeed look at the four schools (SSI plus the middle school magnet consortium) that run 5 of 8.  What we found was that all of those schools have better student to instructional staff ratios.  (The why's of this are a question central office would need to fully answer, but at least part of the answer is FARMs rates and special programs.  TPMS used to receive a small additional staffing allocation due to the presence of the magnet, but no longer.)  For example, the last year that MCPS has data posted (2022-23), TPMS had a 13.0 student to instructional staff ratio, while the ratio at SSI was 10.7.  The MSMC ratios are not quite as low as SSI, but still lower than TPMS.
Regarding class sizes at TPMS, they are roughly comparable now to most MCPS middle schools so the move to 5 of 8 would have put many classes at or above the class size guideline (already too high) of 33 students.

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