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Census data seems to indicate that about 3.5% of the US population is between 15-19 years old. For a town of 12,000 that's 420 students or 140 students per gra
by mikekchar 10y ago
Census data seems to indicate that about 3.5% of the US population is between 15-19 years old. For a town of 12,000 that's 420 students or 140 students per grade.
I've taught classes of 42 in high school. It sucks. 30 is doable. 20 is great and is what I would recommend to every school. You are right that you could easily get it down to 1 high school with 5 home rooms of 28 per grade. It's not optimal but not terrible either.
1 high school for 85k people is insanity. I know this is common place in North America (I think the high school I graduated from had 1250 students in my year and I knew of high schools with 3-4 times as many students). I don't have a huge amount of experience in education, but I know enough to say that you are paying for this "economy" with people's futures.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoThere are 917 students in the two high schools. So either the residents of Cleveland are remarkably fecund, or else they're pulling in a large number of rural students from outside town.
- Ntrails 10y agoI still remember the culture shock moving from a class of 19 to a class of 27 (along with many many other differences). I always wonder how many of the changes were functions of class size, and how many were pure demographics etc.