What’s the legal number of students for a classroom? Is there even such a thing?
The answer to these questions varies
according to where you live. Various states have laws that set a limit to the
number of students enrolled in a classroom. For instance, the legal cap for a
classroom in Texas is 22 students per classroom. However working at a local
elementary school in Texas there are 25+ students in each class. How is it
possible that the legal cap is 22, yet there are 25+ students in the classroom?
Like any wonderful law there are exceptions to the rules. Schools are allowed
to apply for an exemption to the law, if they are able to prove that they are
in hardship and require the exemption. Then there are the states that have no
limits to the number of students in a classroom. I was shock to fine that 15
out of 50 states have no limit. States include Arizona, Washington, and Kansas
just to name a few. California has no “hard limit” for the numbers student in a
class but they try to keep it to 20 for grades K-3. If you would like more
information on your individual states class size limit follow the link below.
On this website you can choose your state, as well as see what the exact
requirements for an exemption to the rules are. I hope you find the information
helpful. Thanks for reading…until next week!
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