Wooooo small class sizes!
By NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (124435)
United States
August 28, 2025 8:08pm CST
We finally are able to get into our class rosters and the grading program today. I was floored to see that 3 of my CP classes have fewer than 15 students. One of them has 22. The Honors section has 28. I've never seen such small class sizes.
The whole thing is nuts. I still can't even believe that our union and the BOE came to an agreement on a contract so quickly since the district is struggling so much with funding. They were spelling doom and gloom with class sizes up to 40 for elementary schools. . .
I literally have classes with 12 and 14 students in them. Very odd. I mean I love small classes but I was not expecting that at all for this year. 28 in an H class is normal. I remember the days of having up to 35. 28 doesn't intimidate me. It is just crazy to see such small numbers.
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@MarieCoyle (47759)
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17h
I am glad to hear this. So many classes here, especially high school, are so very large. Never enough teachers, so they pack the kids in there. Sad.
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@MarieCoyle (47759)
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17h
@NJChicaa
Maybe it will help with stress and give you a bit less work. Maybe! 
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@FourWalls (78235)
• United States
15h
Glad to see you have a large honors class. Now please don’t tell me that the honors classes are the ones you have the most problems with. 
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@LindaOHio (199219)
• United States
1h
I remember that 30-35 was normal in the schools I attended. You will have better one-on-one with smaller classes.
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@Dreamerby (8990)
• Calcutta, India
15h
Yeah that's a really good thing. We had a 60:1 student to teacher ratio!
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