How many teachers per student in kindergarten class?

My boys were both in special ed preschool. One was in an integrated 12:1:2 class. The other went to a school that specialized in autism and other developmental disabilities and his class was 8:1:2 with an extra para.

Now both are moving onto kindy. The one in the 12:1:2 class will be going into general ed and the one in the autism class will be leaving that school to go to the regular public school but in a 12:1:1 class.

I know the general ed class will have anywhere from 17-22 students but I forgot to find out how many teachers there will be. :hush: What have you seen is the avg number of teachers for kindy?

 

Our school has one teacher and one assistant.

 

Last year there were 28 in each class, one teacher, one aid floated in to help with extra stuff when she could and then parent help when possible and any aids for special ed kids were with those children. This year K has 30 kids in each class.

 

1 teacher per 18 - 22 kids. If a kid has special needs, we'll hire a Teacher Aid for that particular child. Sometimes we have student assistants, but only for about 6 weeks.

 

The area we moved from (MI) K classes were 25-28 kids (possibly 30 this year) with one teacher and a part time aide.

Current area (IA) K classes teacher and one aide capped at 24 kids.


Both states had extra aides for particular Spec.Ed students.

 

We have one teacher for I think up to 20 students no aid. My one daughters kindergarten class had a teachers aid and I think that teacher has her every year (but I also think that is the class that gets any student with special needs which she did have one girl in her class but the teachers aid did help the other kids too if needed). But am not sure how that will work out for this school year since they were changing things around.

 

You will need to check with the school because every school is different.

For example, in my kinder class, I had 30 students and shared an aide with three classes. We had a staggered schedule so that the teachers could also help in each others' classes. This kept the teacher:student ratio quite low.

Then schedules changed and we had 30 students, shared an aide with three classes, but we could not stagger and overlap in each others' classes. This raised the ratio significantly.

This year, they have eliminated the aide. BUT, they usually start the year with a student teacher, so that is at least an extra set of hands for the beginning of the year.

As the budgets get tighter across districts and states, aide positions are being eliminated and class sizes are going up.

 

Wow, I am surprised at some of the class sizes. My girls are in K with 1 teacher 15 kids (Full day) their class can't have more than 18.
For those with 30, are they split 15 am and 15 pm? I teach 4th grade and for the last 3 years my largest class was 18 students. We don't have teachers aides in regular classroom. At my school the ESE Pre K and special self-contained ESE classrooms do have aides.

 

No the K are not split. It is 30 kids at a time---and it is a full day program. 1/2 day programs are getting harder to find.


I have never seen a class smaller than 20/22 kids for K that was not Spec.Ed

 

Wow, that is a big class. Over the 12 years I have taught school (1st, 2nd, 4th) my largest class was 26 kids. The one year I taught computer resource I did have 32 students but that was 1 and 1/2 regular classes combined for resource (PE, Art,...).
Here in Florida a class cap size law just went into effect for all public schools. We can't have more than 18 per class for K.

 

This last year my sons class had 32-33 kids. He was in the AM class from 8-11:23. They had one teacher, the PM teacher would help out, 2 aides that were shadows for special need students, and everyday between 9-10 there would be 2 parent volunteers.

 

In our county it is 1 K teacher for anywhere between 18-25 kids. No kinders here have more than one teacher and the only way there would be an aide is if there was a particular student with an IEP that needed an aide and then the aide is only for that student, not the rest of the class.

 

The boys are in a class of 22 and they have their teacher and her assisstant. There are also volunteers that help if they need help in the classroom that day.

 

Thanks for all of your replies. We will definitely call and find out the class dynamics for the typical kindergarten class.

What I'm surprised about is the 1/2 day kindergarten programs. I've never heard of 1/2 day kindergarten. Learn something new every day. :FIFblush:

 

My kids had far fewer than that plus an aide for each kid that needed it. My daughter's class had two aides plus a teacher for well under 20 kids.

Full day K is new in the states. It used to be half day everywhere. We have the choice of full or half, but you pay extra for the full day. I wish I could pay extra and have my kids get home at the half day time everyday! School takes up too much time!

 

In our area- full day K is not extra. It is the standard in both area I lived in. 1/2 was an option, but only am was offered.

Next year the girls school will have 7 all day classes and one 1/2 day am class. No extra fees for all day---or for textbooks, busing etc.

I had never heard of pay-for-K in a public school, pay busing, or textbook fees for Elem except on TS. It must vary by region.

 

We have had full day K in my county for the past 30 years and it is at no extra cost. I love reading TS because I get to find out about how things are around the country (world). I didn't know that 1/2 day k was still around until about 2 years ago

 

Or if you live in CA, kindergarten is not even mandated by the state. So technically, you don't have to send your child until first grade.

 

I did not know that it was not required in some states until recently---I dont know anyone that did not do 'K' if they were going to public schools (skipped K and went into 1st).

It is fun to read all the differences in areas on TS!

 

Lots of people here skip public K by going private and then being able to go to 1st early because they already completed k.

 

Our school has one teacher and one aid per K class. When my oldest DD was in K, there were 22 students. When the twins were in K, they had 15 and 16 in their classes.

Our K is full day no option for half day. Our pre-K in the public school is also full day but only 4 days a week.

 

Full day K in public schools has been the standard here for ages too. The only pay busing I've seen has been for private schools. I also enjoy reading about the differences across TS. I didn't know some areas had the option to skip K too. My Mom wouldn't have been happy with that option. :ibiggrin:

 

One of my boys' K class was 23 kids, and one teacher. The other was 21 kids, 1 teacher, 3 aides--his class had all the special needs kids in it. This year, Marcus has 17 in his class, and Jon has 20. Marc has one teacher, Jon has two, a regular ed, and special ed teacher (and probably an aide, due to the child with spina bifida in his class).

 

I'm really surprised at some of the large class sizes too. At our school, the K classes are all 20-21 students, with one teacher and one assistant.

 

our prek teacher told us last night that the cap is 25 kids with one teacher for kinder