Anonymous wrote:Guessing immersion stays at Key. The optics of moving it are terrible.

What optics? The ones fabricated for news coverage?

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Anonymous wrote:We have a child at Campbell. There were 4 K classes last year and they looked full to me. I don’t know the exact numbers but I’m guessing 21-22 kids per class. I’d like to know the exact numbers and why they didn’t consider them full. Anyone know how I can find out? Thanks.

21 is hardly full.

That’s considered very full for a Title 1 school.

Okay fair, didn’t realize an option school could be title 1. But that means it is engineered that way, so they can adjust its option formula and increase usage of that sites capacity and benefit the whole system.

Anonymous wrote:Guessing immersion stays at Key. The optics of moving it are terrible.

Honestly curious what optics is bad about moving key from one UMC neighborhood (LV) to another (ATS or Nottingham)?

Anonymous wrote:Guessing immersion stays at Key. The optics of moving it are terrible.

The optics of moving an immersion school out of a neighborhood that has gentrified and lost the native Spanish speakers it had in the 80s and 90s and was the reason it was sited there in the first place? Those optics seem pretty good to me.

Guessing immersion stays at Key. The optics of moving it are terrible.

Super wants to keep the money too. And principals have influence. This isn’t a neighborhood school. Opening non vpi seats at Campbell allows parents to opt out of schools that are over crowded.

If Campbell stays small, then they need to kill a vpi class so that people can even apply. Right now it is not really an option.

Anonymous wrote:+ 100. I heard the same. Principal didn’t want the extra class because over time it would change the dynamics of the school and the title I money would be lost.

Not really a county wide school because so few slots available. The focus is clearly on title I.

They had a bulge year because of overcrowding projections. With Drew opening as a neighborhood school this year, there wasn’t a need for a Title 1 school that’s already over capacity (they have a very small and old building) to take an additional K. The principal didn’t decide this, she doesn’t have that power; Central Office made the decision based on projections and available capacity at the neighborhood schools.

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Anonymous wrote:We have a child at Campbell. There were 4 K classes last year and they looked full to me. I don’t know the exact numbers but I’m guessing 21-22 kids per class. I’d like to know the exact numbers and why they didn’t consider them full. Anyone know how I can find out? Thanks.

21 is hardly full.

That’s considered very full for a Title 1 school.

+ 100. I heard the same. Principal didn’t want the extra class because over time it would change the dynamics of the school and the title I money would be lost.

Not really a county wide school because so few slots available. The focus is clearly on title I.

Anonymous wrote:We have a child at Campbell. There were 4 K classes last year and they looked full to me. I don’t know the exact numbers but I’m guessing 21-22 kids per class. I’d like to know the exact numbers and why they didn’t consider them full. Anyone know how I can find out? Thanks.

https://www.apsva.us/statistics/monthly-enrollment/

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Class-Size-Report-2018-19-1.pdf

Campbell is a title I school so it has class size limits. They couldn’t fill the class, but that was only the first year the school was county wide. They didn’t give it a chance and more parents would have applied over time. Making the school county wide lowered the frl numbers too much, to like around 50% with just one new class. Over time it would take the school out of title I and the principal wouldn’t have it.

Anonymous wrote:We have a child at Campbell. There were 4 K classes last year and they looked full to me. I don’t know the exact numbers but I’m guessing 21-22 kids per class. I’d like to know the exact numbers and why they didn’t consider them full. Anyone know how I can find out? Thanks.

21 is hardly full.

We have a child at Campbell. There were 4 K classes last year and they looked full to me. I don’t know the exact numbers but I’m guessing 21-22 kids per class. I’d like to know the exact numbers and why they didn’t consider them full. Anyone know how I can find out? Thanks.

Interesting. Thanks!

Anonymous wrote:Some people choose Campbell for the expeditionary learning and the outdoor learning components. I agree that there’s not much opportunity to get in. 3 VPI classes, 3 kindergarten Classes. Open to the whole county? Not in reality. Makes me annoyed actually.

Per the superintendents report they only offered 3 K classes this year because they rolled through the whole waitlist last year and still weren’t able to fill 4 classes. https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-25-2019-Annual-Update-Final.pdf Page 5