Elementary Class Size Form
To: Elementary Teachers
From: Wendy Epple, MPEA President
Re: CLASS SIZE
Please take a moment to fill out this questionnaire for MPEA. It will help us to determine the
distribution of students throughout elementary buildings and it may serve as data for future
negotiations. Return it to your Building Rep BY THE END OF THE DAY ON WEDESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011. Thanks.
Teacher: ____________________________________________________
Grade taught this year (specify if combination): ___________________________________
Building & Principal: __________________________________________________
Class Size as of 9/13/2011
Number of students (bodies) __________ (a)
Number of weighted students in your classroom
(including learning disabled and mainstreamed for
one-half day or more and including bilingual students)
Note: students count only as one when they are
scheduled in your room for less than one half-day. __________ (b)
Total count: add (a) and (b) __________
Do you have an overload? ______
(Refer to contractual class sizes listed on the back of this page.)
If yes, do you have a classroom aide? ______
Do you have a gifted cluster? ______
List any other information you think we may not have addressed in the above questions but
which is pertinent to class size.
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We need Building Reps to bring these forms to the General Membership
meeting on Thursday, September 15, 2011, or get them to Wendy Epple.
FALL MATERIALS:classize
Class Size: “Maximum Pupils” refers to the maximum that can be scheduled without being
classified as an overload. There is a 2-student overload hard cap.
Elementary Schools MAXIMUM PUPILS
Developmental Kindergarten 22 w/one parapro if # >20
Kindergarten 26 w/one parapro if # >23
Combination DK/K 24 w/one parapro if # >20
Grade 1 26 pupils
Grades 2 - 3 27 pupils
Grades 4 - 6 29 pupils
Combination Grades 24 pupils
Multi-Age Classrooms Lower Grade Max #
Secondary Schools MAXIMUM PUPILS
Honors 25 pupils
English 28 pupils
Social Studies 30 pupils
Mathematics 30 pupils
Science 28 pupils
Foreign Language 30 pupils
General Education 30 pupils
Speech 28 pupils
Reading Improvement 15 pupils
Sr. High Reading Lab/Resource Room **
Music (General) 32 pupils
Band **
Chorus **
Choir **
Art 30 pupils
Health and Hygiene 30 pupils
Physical Education 38 pupils*
English Writing Courses 25 pupils
Low Level Science 25 pupils
Low Level English 25 pupils
Low Level Math 28 pupils