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NRHS Late Starts and Class Sizes April 6, 2016 1 Late Start Key Questions How have late starts been used at NRHS this year? What has been the staff, parent, and student reaction to late starts? What is proposed for the 2016-17 year?

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NRHS Late Starts and Class Sizes

April 6, 2016

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Late Start Key Questions

 How have late starts been used at NRHS

this year?

 What has been the staff, parent, and

student reaction to late starts?

 What is proposed for the 2016-17 year?

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Use of late start activities

 Need for collaborative time was a key finding

by NEASC

 Used for curriculum/assessment/instructional

planning, for example:

– Interdisciplinary literacy group w/English, SS, and

Special Educators

– Multiple same-course groups working on

curriculum and assessment (e.g., Spanish, CP Biology, Senior English)

– Interdisciplinary group working on developing

alternative education programming

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Summary of response to late starts

 All groups responded very positively to late

starts

 Most common concern was lost instructional

time, but only noted by a small minority of teachers and parents

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Staff responses 2/3/16

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Parent responses 3/3/16

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Student responses 3/3/16

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Student responses 3/3/16

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Proposed for next year

 12 Late Starts for collaboration  4 Late Starts for mid-terms  3 Late Starts for finals  8 Early releases  Total instructional hours – 994.1 (above the

required 990)

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Instructional hours

 Calculations exclude passing time  153 “normal” days at 349 instructional

minutes each = 53,397 minutes

 8 early release days at 213* instructional

minutes each = 1,704 minutes

 7 mid-terms and finals late starts at 251

minutes each = 1,757 minutes

 12 late starts for collaborative work at 239

minutes each = 2,868 minutes

 59,688 total minutes = 994.8 hours

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Class Size Key Questions

 What are high school average class sizes?  How many classes have fewer than 10

students?

 How do classes end up with fewer than 10

students?

 How will the high school limit excessively

small class sizes for next year?

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2015-16 class size averages

Avg. class

size % fewer than 18 % 22 or more % 26 or more English 19.1 39.7% 32.4% 7.4% SS 19.4 35.2% 32.4% 11.3% Math 21.4 27.8% 51.9% 24.1% Science 20.0 29.3% 56.9% 0.0% FLD 18.2 43.6% 23.1% 7.7%

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Classes with fewer than 10

 452 total sections across the high school; 23

(5.1%) have fewer than 10 students

 Of those 23:

– 5 are year-long core academic sections – 2 are semester-long core academic electives – 16 are semester-long electives

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How do classes end up with fewer than 10 students?

 Enrollment changed from schedule build to

Fall – 11 classes (48%)

– Example: Ceramics 2 with 70 requests across 4

sections

 Newer programs/classes – 8 classes (35%)

– Example: Theater Arts, Molecular Gastronomy

 Specialized courses/cases – 4 classes (17%)

– Example: AP Latin, CP Chemistry

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What are we doing for next year?

 More conservative section numbers for build,

especially with electives

 “Many new” courses have now been in place

several years; if they don’t draw enough students, they won’t be scheduled

 At the same time, we want to balance

reasonable class sizes with maintaining specialized programs (e.g., AP Physics, AP Latin)

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QUESTIONS?

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