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The state requires that classes not average more than 25 students except for first grade, where 24 is the maximum size. At that rate only fourth grade, with 79 students in three classes, is overcrowded, and that class is averaged with others to get under 25.
Stonewall-Hawthom District representative Robert Anderson asked Dr. Gangel if the new students were spread evenly throughout the grades.
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