Up, Up and Away: Class Sizes Increase But Funds Lacking To Bring Them Down
An additional 90 students this year is creating worries for School District.
With the good can come the bad. And it appears that Belmont School District's long-stellar reputation for educational excellence has come back to bite Belmont's education pipeline as district classrooms are filled to the brim with students. There are 347 first graders in Belmont, the largest grade level in the entire district, numbers seen in other classes up and down the K-12 grade structure to where enrollment in Belmont's six schools has breached the 4,200 student mark, and is expected to jump again in the coming school year. But despite accepting data and a series of short-term staffing recommendations to stem the problems from an advisory group he established, Belmont School District Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston made a …
Judy P
2:12 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
While the pre-K program may have been designed into the new "Wellington," I have constantly heard from Dr. Kingston on down concerns that the school is already too small going forward to accommodate that for which it was primarily designed -- the K - 4 population. With the exception of kindergarten, Wellington currently bears the burden of highest enrollment across grades. 1st is at 105% of the … more ›