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Parents and officials flag rising class-size pressure at Riley Elementary as district monitors enrollment
Summary
District 21 officials reported that Riley Elementary’s grade-level averages and districtwide enrollment trends are being monitored closely after parents and 28 written submissions raised concerns about classroom sizes; administrators said no binding action was taken tonight but will return with a school-by-school breakdown.
District 21 school officials on July 24 told the Board of Education they are watching enrollment closely after principals and parents raised concerns about classroom averages at Riley Elementary and other hot spots.
The issue surfaced during an update on student enrollment from Louis Roberts, the district’s new executive director for human resources, and again in public comment when a parent, Petra Ashman, described the difficulty of teaching and learning in larger classrooms.
Roberts told the board that the elementary averages shown to trustees are derived by dividing total students by the number of anticipated sections and that some specialized programs housed at a school can skew those averages. He said Riley had shown 54 students per grade level for first and second…
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