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I think a lot depends on how the teacher (and hopefully aides) manage the class, and what the kids are like. DD also goes to a small school with one class per grade. Her kindergarten class is 22 kids. The class last year was 11 kids. The smaller class size sounds much better, but everything I've heard from the teacher and other parents, at least one of whom deliberately held her son back from going to K with the smaller class (for several reasons, of course), attests that DD's larger class is better at picking up on routines, more well behaved, and more capable of advanced material than last year's class. They are all really nice, sweet kids, so DD is happy socially as well as flourishing academically. I would be nervous about a class that large too, but if they have two teachers at all times and they manage the classroom well, then that's a good sign. Also, this far in advance, you have no idea what size your DD's class will end up being.
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