Nobody has 14 kids per class. Nobody had 17 kids per gen ed unless it is a title 1 school.

This is not true. Our school can, and has, had this happen. All you need is 34 kids for that year. Too many for a single class, then you split into two. We are a center and NOT title 1.

Not true at all at our center. There are more AAP classes than GE and the AAP classes are all smaller.

Agreed. As I understand it, as explained by our principal, the schools gets allocated a number of teachers per children in the school. Then, the principal each year has to allocate those teachers.

Principal does best he/she can with numbers over the summer, but those can change. Then, if the numbers are not right, principal can try to hire another teacher, but sometimes that doesn't always happen.

In our ES, some years, AAP classes have less than GEN ed, other years, they are equal, etc.

Similarly, some years 1st grade has 17 kids per class, some years 26 per class; just depends on enrollment numbers for the school as well as per the grade.

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Anonymous wrote:AAP classes are actually larger than Gen Ed classes.

Not true at all at our center. There are more AAP classes than GE and the AAP classes are all smaller.

That happened one year at my kid's school.

In one of the upper grades there were a lot of military kids that moved into the area and qualified for the center. In all the years prior, the two AAP classes for this grade were just at the maximum ratio where the non AAP classes were in the upper 20s. They were scheduled to only have two very large AAP classes until the week of open house, when all those new kids registered. It was just enough to push the AAP classes over the ratio and into three 20-something classes instead of two classes in the mid 30s. AAP ended up smaller than gen ed for the last two years, but it was because of mandated staffing ratios and not by design.

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Anonymous wrote:AAP classes are actually larger than Gen Ed classes.

That's what I thought -- but a neighbor said our center has only 14 kids per classroom. Is that even possible? Of course, I was shocked to learn our gen Ed classes have more like 17 kids per class versus 24 in the immersion classes. :-/

Nobody has 14 kids per class. Nobody had 17 kids per gen ed unless it is a title 1 school.

AAP center for one kid = 24.

Gen ed class (not in center) = 31.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People can give you the "just give it a try" advice and you can do that. But, realistically, 121 isn't AAP unless you have some other test or data showing her to be in the 97th or higher.

It doesn't get said much around here -- but it's no shame to be in the top 10% of kids nationally.

AND (2nd poster here) it is also a huge confidence builder for a kid to be at or near the top academically at the base school when the highest kids leave for center.

What about the GE kids who have to attend centers? Kind of a confidence suck for them.

It shouldn't be a confidence suck as long as the school has a good integration of the two programs and the parents (both sets) don't get worked up about it being a center.

On another thread someone said the school suggested scores of 120 (I guess around 91st percentile) or above should get a parent referral. My child was around there, she was 96th in two and in the 50s in quantitative.

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Anonymous wrote:People can give you the "just give it a try" advice and you can do that. But, realistically, 121 isn't AAP unless you have some other test or data showing her to be in the 97th or higher.

It doesn't get said much around here -- but it's no shame to be in the top 10% of kids nationally.

AND (2nd poster here) it is also a huge confidence builder for a kid to be at or near the top academically at the base school when the highest kids leave for center.

What about the GE kids who have to attend centers? Kind of a confidence suck for them.

Anonymous wrote:AAP classes are actually larger than Gen Ed classes.

Not true at all at our center. There are more AAP classes than GE and the AAP classes are all smaller.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AAP classes are actually larger than Gen Ed classes.

That's what I thought -- but a neighbor said our center has only 14 kids per classroom. Is that even possible? Of course, I was shocked to learn our gen Ed classes have more like 17 kids per class versus 24 in the immersion classes. :-/

Maybe.

Which pyramid are you in?