Anonymous wrote:Murch 1st grade 28. Not happy about it.

I’m afraid that those who chose not to begin Kindergarten in the fall of 2020 created an extra large K class the following year across the country. That cohort is now in 1st grade. So you won’t be able to fairly predict next years 1st grade class size by looking at this year’s.

Anonymous wrote:having experienced small class sizes EOTP and big class sizes WOTP I would take wotp any day. I found the quality if the teachers snd having a less challenging student body more important to a good school experience.

Laughing at you thinking the quality of teachers is better WOTP.

Anonymous wrote:Janney- K was 22, 1st is 18.

Actually, ours was 24 in K. But yes, 1st is 18 this year, thank goodness.

Ross is a small school -- total enrollment is 162. Might be a good fit! it feeds to sws-fs for middle, however (and then maybe Cardozo for high school?)

Anonymous wrote:Murch 1st grade 28. Not happy about it.

With an aide, or the teacher is solo?

Lafayette 1st - 21. I think all of the first grades there have 21-22.

24 in our Janney K

having experienced small class sizes EOTP and big class sizes WOTP I would take wotp any day. I found the quality if the teachers snd having a less challenging student body more important to a good school experience.

They strive to keep close to 20 but since they can’t control who enrolls, it is going to be different grade by grade. They aren’t going to hire a new teacher because they have class sizes of 22 for example. But if a big school like Janney has 25 kids in 4 classes, they might hire another teacher to make that 5 classes of 20. But there are a lot of ifs there including teacher availability which is low at the moment. I don’t think you are going to find any dcps aiming to have class sizes under 20 but it might happen in some years due to numbers. Hope this helps. Fwiw the big affluent schools WTOP hire lots of helper teachers which mitigate large class sizes.

Janney- K was 22, 1st is 18.

class sizes skew smaller at dcps schools eotp

Anonymous wrote:Small school =/= small classes.

OP here - great point, thank you! Ideally would hope for both but small class is more important to me than small school size. I realize there may be no such thing and the 28-kid class PP mentioned is the situation everywhere, but thought I’d at least ask.

Small school =/= small classes. The smallest ES are Hearst, Key, and Mann, which I think are all under 400 students total. But the bigger ES have more classrooms per grade. My kid is at Murch, and she's generally had about 22 kids in her class each year.

Murch 1st grade 28. Not happy about it.

Moving to DC and looking for a small public elementary with small classes. Recognizing that it would be anecdotal and that things change, how many kids per class (ish) at your kid’s Hardy or Deal feeder elementary?