Anonymous
Post 08/15/2013 16:32     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
DCPS are neighborhood schools and must accept all children who live in their boundaries. They also additionally accept children through a lottery space permitting.

DCPCS are charter schools who accept children through a lottery process and can limit class sizes as they see fit.

Anonymous
Post 08/15/2013 16:06     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
So charter schools (DCPCS) set their own size limits, but DCPS has no set standards?
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2013 12:19     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
YY is a public charter school.
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2013 12:13     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DS's PreK class at Washington Yu Ying PCS was 17 students with one teacher and one assistant. His K class is the same.

I really can't imagine putting a child in DCPS...


I've never posted anything, positive or negative, about YY on here. I'm starting to see why others do, though. What an obnoxious comment.

Signed, happy parent with 2 kids in DCPS

P.S. DC1 had 25 kids in K class with amazing teacher and good aide. Great year.
DC2 had 23 kids in K class with amazing teacher and decent aide. Great year.
Both of their class sizes have been at 23 or smaller since K.



I'm new here and just trying to wrap my brain around the schools, but I thought Yu Ying was a DC public school?
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 23:22     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:Whats the typical size of a DCPS K class? If there is no typical size, how do the K classes at Oyster and Murch compare with some EOP schools, like Bancroft or Marie Reed?

Thanks!

Oyster has 28 or more. Two teachers, but they aren't in the same room at the same time. The school can't afford the two per classroom model anymore. Too many highly effective teachers with big bonuses.

The special education inclusion classes are usually 25 or less with aides and 2 teachers.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 10:32     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DCPS kid had 27 kids in class with a fabulous experienced teacher and a capable aide. Fewer students would have been better, but he had a good year regardless. I think 30 is the cutoff where DCPS will provide an extra teacher.


Extra teacher, they would need an extra class!


Yeah it depends on the size of the classrooms and if they have a spare room (or have the art/music/reading teacher give up their room depending on what's going on)
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 09:54     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DCPS kid had 27 kids in class with a fabulous experienced teacher and a capable aide. Fewer students would have been better, but he had a good year regardless. I think 30 is the cutoff where DCPS will provide an extra teacher.


Extra teacher, they would need an extra class!


Sorry, that's what I meant. There would be an extra class with a teacher and an aide.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 09:48     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:My DS's PreK class at Washington Yu Ying PCS was 17 students with one teacher and one assistant. His K class is the same.

I really can't imagine putting a child in DCPS...


I've never posted anything, positive or negative, about YY on here. I'm starting to see why others do, though. What an obnoxious comment.

Signed, happy parent with 2 kids in DCPS

P.S. DC1 had 25 kids in K class with amazing teacher and good aide. Great year.
DC2 had 23 kids in K class with amazing teacher and decent aide. Great year.
Both of their class sizes have been at 23 or smaller since K.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 09:33     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:My DCPS kid had 27 kids in class with a fabulous experienced teacher and a capable aide. Fewer students would have been better, but he had a good year regardless. I think 30 is the cutoff where DCPS will provide an extra teacher.


Extra teacher, they would need an extra class!
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 09:25     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
My DCPS kid had 27 kids in class with a fabulous experienced teacher and a capable aide. Fewer students would have been better, but he had a good year regardless. I think 30 is the cutoff where DCPS will provide an extra teacher.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 06:35     Subject: Re:DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:At least one of Tyler's traditional K classes had 28 students present the day I helped out in the classroom. I couldn't believe they had so many kids. They had a lead teacher (who seemed terrific and very experienced) and an aide. The aide sat behind a table the whole time and had the misbehaving children sent over to her from time to time.


ouch that is a lot but it might not be enough kids to justify a third kindy class.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 06:34     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:My DS's PreK class at Washington Yu Ying PCS was 17 students with one teacher and one assistant. His K class is the same.

I really can't imagine putting a child in DCPS...


DCPS has to take any kid who enrolls at any time. Yuying accepts parents who wait in line for hours and that's only if they are very lucky.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2013 00:00     Subject: DCPS limits on K size?
Anonymous wrote:My DS's PreK class at Washington Yu Ying PCS was 17 students with one teacher and one assistant. His K class is the same.

I really can't imagine putting a child in DCPS...


Where would you be if you hadn't gotten into YY?