How Big are your classes?

minidazzler

I only ask because you hear alot of talk about overcrowding in classes and in my school that is not the case. So I want to know where it is the case.

In my classes.
Irish - H - 2
Maths - H - 5
English - H - 7
Geography - H+O - 7
German - O - 9
Physics - H+O -5
Chemistry - H+O - 6

I have heard there are upwards of 30 students in some classes in certain schools.

just want to know your LC class size.

Selphie

English - H - 14
Irish - H - 15
Maths - H - 6
French - H - 13
History - H - 8
Biology - H&O - 12
Latin - H - 2

D. Coughlan

Irish-O-29
English-H-20
Maths-H-31 (was 35 before christmas)
French-H-21
Economics-H-14
Business-H-24
Geography-H-30
LCVP-C-10

AdMMM

I'd simply love to have such small classes.

Irish - 30 - Ordinary
Maths - 27 - Ordinary - Was about 13 at start of year!
English - 30 - Honours
History - 20 - Honours + Ordinary
German - 25 - H+O
Economics - 14 - H+O
Biology - 24 - H+O

qz

Might have just shy of 100 in my O Maths Class
40+ in H Irish
40+ in Classics
70+ in H French

But the work gets done

AdMMM

How big are your classrooms? The upper legal limit is 30 by the way.

Nehpets

30 at most for things like Irish, English, LCVP
Little less for Engineering, Biology
Then under 20 for Physics, Maths, German

JC 2K3

qz wrote:

Might have just shy of 100 in my O Maths Class
40+ in H Irish
40+ in Classics
70+ in H French

But the work gets done

Grind school?


I can't understand how some people have classes with under 10 people, you guys must go to really small schools....

There's 22 in my main class, which is together for Irish and English. For everything else there's between 15 and 25 in each class. Never bothered counting.

Steve01

Irish H - 22-25
English H - 20-22
Maths O - 22
French H - 12-13
Biology H - 14
Chemistry H - 10
History H - 8
Music H - 1 (well it is private tutoring...)

PurpleFistMixer

Irish(H) - 15ish
English(H) - 20ish
Maths(H) - 8
French(H) - 20-25ish
Music - 7
Art - 15ish
Physics - 3
Applied Maths - 15ish (though I do this outside school)

I hear there's about 30 in the Ordinary level maths class which is a bit... unbalanced, but sure what can you do! Only about 40/50 in the year anyway.

Oh, and I'm in 5th year, also, so the classes (I suspect french definitely) will prolly change next year.

Mushy

Only 22 in my year! Some are split, I'll try and divide them up now:

Maths-H-4
English-11(9 at honours)
Irish-12(2 at Hons, 5 at Ord, 5 at Foundation)
Accounting-6(2 at Hons, 4 at Ord)
Physics-9(2 at Hons, 7 at Ord
French-5(2 at Hons, 3 at Ord)
History-10(4 at Hons, 6 at Ord)

timmywex

in my school, for the lc, they have a maximum of 25 in any class at any time and a minimum of 10 because there used to be 2 in an economics class and this was using up one teacher and its something to do with when they return the class size numbers and other figures for teachers,it decides their funding

Naikon

WOW, most people here seem to have very small classes.
I dont attend a grind school but their is a minimum of 20 people in most classes and classes like maths(O) have 50 students in one sitting.
Physics has about 20 people though with a mix of hons and ordinary:D

I know a guy from the Institute of Education, and he told me that his classes can be as big as 200+ people:eek:, although it is the biggest "grinds" school in the country.
Most of us have it lucky;)

Corruptedmorals

We have a limit of 30 in my school.

Irish- 17 (Honours! The pass ones are nearly full)
English- 25
Maths- 29 (was 16 before the honours people dropped down!)
French- 29 I think
Biology- 21, but they only fit 24
History- full, 30
Geography- full, 30
Religion/Guidance- 26?

Citizen_Erased

Thats quite amazing , most my classes are around the 30 mark like the norm , chemistry is 12 and TG is only 5.

Where is your school? You must be getting on well with that much of the teachers attention?

bikeman1

Well, a few people from my year left and went to a grind school, which has brought my class sizes down to a great level, def. not too much and not too small.

Irish H - 15 (Top OL class is near 30 after a few drop downs)
English(2nd Honours) - 21
Maths H -18
Spanish - 19
Accounting - 12
Geography - 20
Physics - 19
Applied Maths - 14

Selphie

thirty in a class - there's only just that in my whole year!

Attol

Geography H - 150-200ish
Spanish H - 20ish
Maths O - 15ish
Home Ec H - 20ish
English H - varying on topic 20 - 50
Finnish H - 3 (outside school)
Business H - 100ish

Rozabeez

Corruptedmorals wrote:

We have a limit of 30 in my school.

Irish- 17 (Honours! The pass ones are nearly full)
English- 25
History- full, 30

What she said....

Home-Ec: 12 (well 11 now that someone's been kicked out, heh.)

I've never counted the rest.

JSK 252

English HL- between 25 and 30
Irish HL- 20ish
Maths HL- 20ish
French HL- 25ish
Chemistry - 10
Biology - 12
Geography- 25 ( Class is way too big compared to junior cert. People have taken up the subject even though they havent done it for the junior cert and the people who have taken it up are all messers who thought that the subject is easy when its actually not. In actual fact there is two classes for geography which are on at different times due to options etc. My teacher is really pissed off with these people and its coming to the stage where they will be kicked out.)

All the higher level classes should go down in numbers since im only in transition year. Especially the numbers doing Irish and maths HL.

Corruptedmorals

Same, we have 2 history, 2 biology and 2 geography classes. Bent.

JSK 252

Corruptedmorals wrote:

Same, we have 2 history, 2 biology and 2 geography classes. Bent.

Defintely a total f*** up. In my school its just geography we have 2 classes for. Major imbalances though. My class has 25 people(half of which are total f***ing dopes who dont give a f*** about school as I have mentioned before) and the other has like 10. Since the demand for geography was high they had to put 2 classes on at different times which unfortuntately ruined peoples option choices as they were unable to get their top 3 options.(We do 7 subjects for leaving cert english, irish, maths,french plus 3 options) Luckily I got my first 3 choices but one of my friends only got his first ,second and fifth choice. A lot of people wanted to do biology but they couldnt because of the extra geography class.

m-i-t-s-u-k-o

English - H - 32
Irish - H - 18
Maths - H - 18
Biology - H - 23
German - H - 18
Accounting - H - 15
Physics - H - 3

I've got a wierd combo I'm in the biggest class in my year (My english class) And the smallest in my year... Everyone reckons a class with only three people sucks but's it's brilliant! We've a great teacher, it's me and my two best friends in class with me and generally we've a lot of fun and Physics is my favourite subject now!

Piste

I'm only in TY but we were sorted into our fifth year maths classes at the beginning of the year. My class has about 36 people in it which is pretty disgraceful as no work gets done whatsoever, and it's one of the only classes where the teacher actually tries to get us to work cos we've started the LC course early. I'm sure it'll be much smaller by this time next year though.

JC 2K3

^You'll find your TY maths class's most important purpose is to make those who should be doing pass realise that they should do so rather than starting the LC course early. You'll probably redo everything you do in 4th year at some stage in 5th or 6th year in a smaller class. Honours Maths classes are always absurdly big at the start.

JC06

I'm in fifth year now....
English-H-14
Irish-H-8
Maths-H-7...(I think we're all dropping to pass haha)
Accounting-H+O- 6 people,3 higher 3 ordinary
Biology-H+O-12..5 higher and 7 ordinary
French-H+O- 14...2 higher and 12 ordinary
Geography-H+O- smallest geography class..7 people..3 higher 4 ordinary

I hadn't realised how small my classes were until I did this but they make up for that in noise!

gaeilgegrinds

Grinds schools generally have bigger classes. I worked in a severely disadvantaged school last year and honestly can only say they got the best educational advantages I've ever seen. I had 8 in honours Irish and they all got a minimum of a high B, not my doing, tis impossible to do badly with that few. We literally had a semi-circle of desks and it was like a big study group, amazing way to teach and I can only imagine an amazing way to learn!

Carsinian Thau

English H - 31
Irish H - 26
Maths H - 35 (used to be 41)
Physics H - 26
Chemistry H - 15
Biology H - 30
App Maths H/O - 3

Very overcrowded. No wonder we're nowhere near finished.

boger

my class sizes arent that bad,

irish Ol 27 ( they all dont give a **** about the leaving cert )
english Hl 25 ( a really great class, get the work done and all get great grades)
maths Hl 14 ( another good class, we have a great teacher )
business hl 30 ( I hate this class, and i cant stand this subject )
economics hl 16 ( love this subject, everybody in class wants to learn )
geography hl 12 ( cant stand this class full of prats )
history hl 15 ( love this subject everybody in class wants to learn)