<p>I go to a really small school. Classes can actually get made that only have two students.</p>
<p>I know most people go to school's that require like 10 or more people to sign up just to make the course. Definitely not at my school.</p>
<p>So how many people are in each of your classes?</p>
<p>Mine:
Pre-Calculus- About 15-18
AP Chemistry- 5... Was six, but one dropped
Band- 9 (Super tiny band...a lot of people dropped over the last two years)
English 11- 14
AP Music Theory- 8
AP US History- 20 (We don't even have enough desks in this class...)
French IV- 5</p>
<p>So yeah... My smallest class is 5... my largest twenty.</p>
<p>My friend is in Latin IV... and they only had two. That's almost like having a private tutor! That class now has three... but its still tiny.</p>
<p>Average class sizes for the more conventional/ required courses are around 22.
My smallest class this year is AP Music Theory with 12.
It would be awesome to have only 5 people in a class! I think 2 would be too few, 5 is about right :P</p>
<p>I think our school’s limit for most classes is about 10.</p>
<p>AP World History: 24
AP Physics C: 21 (the biggest class my teacher’s had in all his career. Phys B is the biggest ever too)
AP Chem: 17
AP English: 22
Chamber Orchestra: 60? I don’t count.</p>
<p>I think all those numbers are right. I counted in the first few weeks of school, but my list is upstairs.
I know Chamber Orchestra is way too big to actually be Chamber, but that’s how it is.</p>
<p>Wow! I envy all of you who have small class sizes! I think my smallest class size is 25 and my largest is probably around 50. On average though, I will have about 35 people in each of my classes:/</p>
<p>i’ve actually never been in a class with more than 25 people in my entire life, and once high school’s started the largest class i had was PE, and that was only 20 students (the next biggest was probably 17? people)</p>
<p>although i’ve never had an extremely small class. my smallest class ever would probably be 10 or 11. i’ve taken summer camp classes with like only 6 people, and its pretty sweet; the downside is that you can never fall asleep in class or you’re doomed.</p>
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<li>what’s it like having like more than 25 people in one class? lol im really curious XD</li>
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<p>To be honest, it’s not that great:/ Due to the California budget cuts, my school is making our parents pay more,(for a public school) and the classes are getting larger. I suppose that it gives you the opportunity to sleep, but it gives you less individualized attention. 2800 students doesn’t seem like too much, but when you put those students in small classes, it can be overwhelming:/ On the bright side though, when I get to college, I will already be accostumed to the large classes:) However, what’s it like for those who have small number of students in each class?</p>
<p>well ill just put in my perspective on this; it depends who the students are. seriously, if you’re in a classroom of 18 people where only three or so people are really active, you feel the same as if you were in a large classroom that didn’t give a lot of individual attention. i guess this goes for all classes, but when teachers have favorites in small classes, the amount of times they call on them or praise them, etc is extremely high because since the class is smaller, the teacher doesn’t feel the need for “fairness” (like, in a large classroom he/she may have to equalize the number of times people talk because there are a lot of people. but in a smaller classroom, the need is lessened.) but a small class with like 10 people where all 10 people are on the same level is really fun, especially if everyone develops a bond with each other (: and if its a discussion based class, lol.</p>
<p>that’s one of the reasons why i’m scared to apply to UCs or schools with large populations in general; if i’ve never had a class beyond 25 students (this includes elementary school btw, my es classes were larger than my middle school classes), then the “shock” i feel when there are ucla seminars with 200 people might just kill me. lol.</p>
<p>ohh yeah, btw, do you go to a school in norcal or socal? & 2800 is about 2.5x as many students as my school has (and my school is prek-12)</p>
<p>smallest class was 8. class sizes are about 25. this year i’m the only one taking AP French, but I’m being put into the French III class. My teacher will just work with me independently.</p>
<p>This past year - the number fluctuated around 15 - 20 students per class (except in health/gym - those were generally a lot bigger). I don’t know about this year but given the increase in AP participants, they’re expecting around 30+ students per class - and for block zeroes around 40+ students - should be interesting.</p>
<p>^^^Wow, that would be cool:) ^^^^I see what you mean with the smaller classes. It would be awesome to only have 10 to 15 students that were all very active:) The problem with my school is that we get participation points based off of volunteering to answer questions. When there are so many people raising their hand, you don’t get as many chances:/ Haha, yes, 200 is quite a few people! I’m sure you would do fine though:) I go to school in the Bay Area:) Do you live in California too?</p>
<p>I go to a really big school, the class of '10 has about 670 kids, and all the others have 700+
The average size for a class is between 25 and 35, but sometimes we have classes with like 10 kids (SAMCLA, SADECA, AP Comparative Gov/Pol, etc) but thats only because they’re SUPER hard and 75% of the class drops out before October</p>