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Anonymous wrote:We received notice that the number of incoming students will go down dramatically next year, leading to a reduction of five teaching slots. I'm wondering if it's something about our specific school or if it's projected county-wide?

Are you part of a boundary study? If not, name the school.

Hoover Middle School

Is this hitting the music department, particularly? There was another thread complaining about reduced ensembles.

Yes-- I don't recall details but the band teacher and another art (non music) teacher are being cut (those teachers identified themselves to kids last week). The others seem to be in academic departments-- kid has heard rumors from teachers talking too much, but they are unconfirmed so I'll not say here.

Maybe there were fewer students than expected selecting those classes during course registration this year?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that the number of incoming students will go down dramatically next year, leading to a reduction of five teaching slots. I'm wondering if it's something about our specific school or if it's projected county-wide?

Are you part of a boundary study? If not, name the school.

Hoover Middle School

Is this hitting the music department, particularly? There was another thread complaining about reduced ensembles.

Yes-- I don't recall details but the band teacher and another art (non music) teacher are being cut (those teachers identified themselves to kids last week). The others seem to be in academic departments-- kid has heard rumors from teachers talking too much, but they are unconfirmed so I'll not say here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that the number of incoming students will go down dramatically next year, leading to a reduction of five teaching slots. I'm wondering if it's something about our specific school or if it's projected county-wide?

Are you part of a boundary study? If not, name the school.

Hoover Middle School

Is this hitting the music department, particularly? There was another thread complaining about reduced ensembles.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that the number of incoming students will go down dramatically next year, leading to a reduction of five teaching slots. I'm wondering if it's something about our specific school or if it's projected county-wide?

Are you part of a boundary study? If not, name the school.

Hoover Middle School

It looks like Hoover is dropping by ~25 kids which is ~1.4 FTE if you consider that a "class". If you are dropping by 5 FTE, Hoover may have ended up retaining extra staffing during the enrollment drop during the pandemic. With enrollment uncertain, they kind of "coasted" through two years on 2019-2020 staffing and figured smaller class sizes were okay last year. I know my school lost some staffing early last summer as they started re-balancing staffing across schools based on actual enrollment for this year. That could be what is happening now at Hoover.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they're linked here: https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/cipmaster/

Scroll down to the Chapter 4 sections and open your cluster's PDF. There will be a chart a few pages in with the enrollment projections for each school in your cluster.

thank you!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that the number of incoming students will go down dramatically next year, leading to a reduction of five teaching slots. I'm wondering if it's something about our specific school or if it's projected county-wide?

Are you part of a boundary study? If not, name the school.

Hoover Middle School

There is definitely not a countywide reduction predicted.

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that the number of incoming students will go down dramatically next year, leading to a reduction of five teaching slots. I'm wondering if it's something about our specific school or if it's projected county-wide?

Are you part of a boundary study? If not, name the school.

Yes, they're linked here: https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/cipmaster/

Scroll down to the Chapter 4 sections and open your cluster's PDF. There will be a chart a few pages in with the enrollment projections for each school in your cluster.

We received notice that the number of incoming students will go down dramatically next year, leading to a reduction of five teaching slots. I'm wondering if it's something about our specific school or if it's projected county-wide?