School question for Wake county (yes I have read school threads in sticky section)

[Sal_M]

Class sizes in many schools, particularly traditional calendar are at max sizes; 23 (new this year, it was 24 last year) k-3 and can reach 30 in 4th and 5th. The legislature did pass a bill to lower class size in K-3 but did not fund that bill so there will more protests as the school year gets going if they do allocate some money.

[twingles]

Originally Posted by buy_sell1

couple of posters (@m378 and @Twingles) have talked about faster growth rates and the need for new schools. here in NJ, the growth is not as fast NC, but towns don't/can't build new schools (due to whatever reasons) and people gravitate towards high rated schools so you get very large class sizes and student population over time

Most of the schools in Western Wake county are at capacity.

You cannot compare the growth here to the northeast. It's not even the same discussion. i don't know where in NJ you live, some places might be experiencing some growth up there, but there are scores of subdivisions going up every single day here. They opened two new elementary schools two years ago, another is opening this fall and they start on a new one next year. A new high school is opening this fall. All of these schools are/will be full of students. We're talking thousands of students. It is HUGE growth. I'm from Long Island - when I look at the elementary schools that my kids went to before we moved, I see LESS classrooms per grade level. For their K-1 school there was a reduction of 4-5 classrooms, that's 100 students give or take. Absolutely unheard of here. They can't simply add a few kids to the existing classrooms here. Not a solution.

[Gard]

In a school system that adds around 2,800 kids a year, you can't just squeeze them in. Between regulatory constraints, lack of space to expand many existing schools(ones that could be have been already), among other things, it simply doesn't work here.