Q&A: what is the average amount of students one kindergarten class should have?
Question by Chelle Belle: what is the average amount of students one kindergarten class should have?
the class has one teacher & one aid that stays half the day. what would be the normal amount of kids to expect in a kindergarten class like this?
is 26 too many?
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Answer by Donald B
Less than 30 in a public school. Actually in the olden days when I first started teaching kindergarten classes were very small and the teacher taught 2 classes for 2 1/2 hours each for a total of 5 hours of teaching a day. The teachers complained that they were over worked because they had to teach 2 classes. Now the class is 3 hours long, but there are the same number of students in the 3 hour class as there were originally in both of the 2 1/2 hour classes combined.
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Most kindergarten classrooms are less than 20. A few might be as high as 25. That’s more than plenty for an energetic bunch of five year-olds.
If the aide stays all day, then 26 is manageable. With all the budget cuts and lay-offs going on, some classes are over 30, which is way too many. I suppose the teacher should count herself lucky to have a job as well as an aide.