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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Superintendent David Gangel told the committee studying school expansion and the School Board the elementary school will be full by the 1994-95 school year.
That statement was based on the assumption that students currently in the elementary school will continue to progress through the grades and that the classes entering kindergarten will continue to be too large to be accommodated in three sections.
This year kindergarten and first grades are in four sections. Seventh grade is also in four sections. The other classes are in three sections.
Virginia’s Standards of Quality (SOQs) require that kindergarten classes average no more than 25 students. First grades are to average no more than 24 to a class. Second and third grades combined are to average no more than 25 to a class. Fourth, fifth and sixth grades combined are to average no more than 25 to a class, and seventh grade English classes are to average no more than 24 to a class.
All the elementary classes are below those maximums except fourth grade, with 80 students in three sections. However, when fourth grade enrollment is combined with fifth and sixth grade enrollment, the school meets the state requirement for that group of grades.
Next year, seventh grade will not require four sections, but second grade will. The following year, third grade will probably require a fourth section.
At that point the school will probably convert the current art room to regular classroom use. The following year, 1994-95, with fourth grade also requiring a fourth sec
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