Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 13:50     Subject: Post your class size and grade
Anonymous wrote:Cold Spring - 13 in 4th, 11 in 2nd. Glorious.


isn't Cold Spring way under capacity?
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 13:42     Subject: Post your class size and grade
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Anonymous wrote:Ashburton. 5th and 3rd. 36 and 31!!!


Even with your modular addition? Is that a compacted math class or is that really a 5th grade homeroom?!


These large class sizes will surely trigger an additional classroom being added (and ultimately smaller classes), right?


The problem with some schools (I'm looking at you, Bethesda ES) is that there is literally no more room for more classes or more portables. They already did an addition on the remaining property available, and have already outgrown the school. It's really outrageous that this is permitted.

+1 Somerset Elementary School too. There's a "study" underway to figure out what to do with the overcrowding, but MCPS has 6 years to come up with a solution, and meanwhile kids are crammed like sardines and there's no more teacher's lounge or music room.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 11:51     Subject: Post your class size and grade
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Anonymous wrote:Grade 2
15

East Silver Spring


ESS is title 1 or just close?

I checked. Not title 1 and hasn't been since at least 2014 (didn't bother looking back further). I *think* TPES also has roughly comparable sizes I think? and really not Title 1.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/dtecps/title1/schools.aspx


It’s focus, not title 1


I've been searching for a list of focus schools. Is there one published?


NP here. I've never found one. They switch from year to year depending on FARMS rates. I've seen schools move on and off the Title I list, but never seen a full list of Focus Schools.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 11:46     Subject: Post your class size and grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ashburton. 5th and 3rd. 36 and 31!!!


Even with your modular addition? Is that a compacted math class or is that really a 5th grade homeroom?!


These large class sizes will surely trigger an additional classroom being added (and ultimately smaller classes), right?


The problem with some schools (I'm looking at you, Bethesda ES) is that there is literally no more room for more classes or more portables. They already did an addition on the remaining property available, and have already outgrown the school. It's really outrageous that this is permitted.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 10:56     Subject: Post your class size and grade
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Anonymous wrote:Our fifth grade has a wide variance. I noticed one class had 18 but one had 27.


Can you advocate that the kids be evenly distributed among 5th grade? I'd email the principal with my concern.



Doesn't your 5th grade switch a lot? We had 31 in 5th grade a few years ago, but that was just a homeroom. They switched and it evened things out for parts of the day. (Didn't help the poor teacher who had to grade 31 essays, but she was so fabulous that she could handle her 31 better than some of the others could manage 26.)


Yes they do switch a lot and I have no idea about how those numbers fall out. So it may even out.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 10:42     Subject: Re:Post your class size and grade
5th grade-29 kids, BCC cluster ES
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 08:00     Subject: Post your class size and grade
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Anonymous wrote:damn you cold spring


My kid is at Cold Spring 5th. Two sections have 28 kids in each class.


So is 21:17 a troll? I was wondering.


Might not. Cold Spring is one of the CES centers so the # of students might vary depending on the class.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 07:02     Subject: Re:Post your class size and grade
1st Grade 17 kids. Focus school
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 06:39     Subject: Post your class size and grade
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Anonymous wrote:5th grade- 30 kids.
MCPS


What school?


Greenwood
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2018 06:36     Subject: Post your class size and grade
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Anonymous wrote:damn you cold spring


My kid is at Cold Spring 5th. Two sections have 28 kids in each class.


So is 21:17 a troll? I was wondering.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2018 23:53     Subject: Post your class size and grade
Anonymous wrote:damn you cold spring


My kid is at Cold Spring 5th. Two sections have 28 kids in each class.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2018 23:09     Subject: Post your class size and grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ashburton. 5th and 3rd. 36 and 31!!!


Even with your modular addition? Is that a compacted math class or is that really a 5th grade homeroom?!


These large class sizes will surely trigger an additional classroom being added (and ultimately smaller classes), right?
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2018 22:52     Subject: Post your class size and grade
damn you cold spring
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2018 22:12     Subject: Post your class size and grade
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our fifth grade has a wide variance. I noticed one class had 18 but one had 27.


Can you advocate that the kids be evenly distributed among 5th grade? I'd email the principal with my concern.



Doesn't your 5th grade switch a lot? We had 31 in 5th grade a few years ago, but that was just a homeroom. They switched and it evened things out for parts of the day. (Didn't help the poor teacher who had to grade 31 essays, but she was so fabulous that she could handle her 31 better than some of the others could manage 26.)
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2018 22:12     Subject: Post your class size and grade
Oh I see - the old red/green zone maps. Not school by school.