Here's a staffing document about the number of art/music/PE teachers per school. It is not based on overall enrollment it is based on the number of classrooms. What is hard is that a lot of art/music/PE teachers are left to cobble together a full workweek by bouncing around to multiple schools and sometimes these positions are not staffed if you can't find a part time specialist who needs the hour allocations and their schedule can accomodate the school's schedule

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/boe/meetings/memorandum/200318-staff-allocations-spec-pos-02-24-20-01-b-bd.pdf

Anonymous wrote:My kid's school has 1 speech therapist, 4 para educators, 1 music teacher, 1 PE teacher, 2 art teacher, 1 reading specialiat, 1 media specialist. There are almost 800 kids for school. It seems quite low.

Usually, once you get to around 500 kids you qualify for part-time support for Art/Music/PE. Librarians and Reading specialists are set at one teacher per school regardless of size. You should be allocated at least 1 full-time and one part-time counselor

This staffing document is out of date I can't find a more up-to-date one but it gives you a general idea

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/boe/meetings/memorandum/181017-es-staffing-model.pdf

I wonder if the school administration is slacking on hiring people or if there are people being hired but the website or staffing directory is out of date?

about same for us

My kid's school has 1 speech therapist, 4 para educators, 1 music teacher, 1 PE teacher, 2 art teacher, 1 reading specialiat, 1 media specialist. There are almost 800 kids for school. It seems quite low.