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Old 05-23-2022, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Spartanburg, SC
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At a cocktail party this weekend, someone told me her granddaughter is in a math class with 59 students in the Myers Park area.

Could this be true?

Spartanburg’s growing rapidly and struggling to retain teachers, also, but that number seemed really “out there”.

I know someone looking to relocate to Charlotte and I am just curious.

Thanks.
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Old 05-27-2022, 04:14 AM
 
Location: Charlotte
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Not sure about one individual class, but the student to teacher ratio at MPHS is 20:1 for the whole school.
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Old 05-27-2022, 09:44 AM
 
Location: Spartanburg, SC
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Not sure about one individual class, but the student to teacher ratio at MPHS is 20:1 for the whole school.
Thanks. I thought that sounded pretty “out there” but I know schools are struggling to retain teachers.
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Old 05-27-2022, 11:42 AM
 
Location: NC
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I don't have knowledge of CMS, but I do know there have been schools with 19 or 20 to 1 average total that have had 40+ to 1 in certain classes while special classes at 3-5 to one were on the other end of the average.

Last edited by getatag; 05-27-2022 at 12:04 PM.. Reason: spelling....... of course.
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Old 05-27-2022, 11:59 AM
 
Location: Spartanburg, SC
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I don't have knowledge of CMS, but I do know there have been schools with 19 or 20 to 1 average total that have had 40+ to 1 in certain classes while special classes at 3-5 to one where on the other end of the average.
Wow.
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Old 05-27-2022, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Charlotte
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Maybe CMS is preparing high schoolers for going to large universities where they get thrust into lecture halls with one professor and 450 students.... part of college prep, real world edition. LOL

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Old 05-27-2022, 12:52 PM
 
Location: NC
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Maybe CMS is preparing high schoolers for going to large universities where they get thrusted into lecture halls with one professor and 450 students.... part of college prep, real world edition. LOL
Maybe closer to the truth than we might joke about. College lecture classes like the old days.
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Old 05-28-2022, 07:28 AM
 
Location: under the beautiful Carolina blue
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Teacher student ratio accounts for every single teacher in the school. Including the speech pathologist who may have an entire case load of 10 kids.

As teachers abandon the job expect larger classes in subjects like math. It is not impossible for there to be that many kids in a class in wake county so I’m sure CMS is similar.
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Old 06-02-2022, 08:30 AM
 
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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I read a few weeks ago that almost every high school in South Charlotte is at 125% capacity including South Meck, Ardrey Kell, and Providence. They announced construction on a new HS a few weeks ago to try and address it. Charlotte gained nearly 150k people in the new Census so growing pains like this are far from surprising.
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Old 06-02-2022, 09:35 AM
 
Location: Charlotte
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I read a few weeks ago that almost every high school in South Charlotte is at 125% capacity including South Meck, Ardrey Kell, and Providence. They announced construction on a new HS a few weeks ago to try and address it. Charlotte gained nearly 150k people in the new Census so growing pains like this are far from surprising.
Yep, new high school is going near the Toringdon shopping center on the vacant land behind the British International School. Boundaries will be re-drawn to relieve Ardrey Kell and South Meck.
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