Policy number: 7.7021
Title: Class Size
Effective date: January 2020
Approved date: January 2020
Supersedes: 7.7021
Dated: March 2011
Class sizes at FIS are differentiated across grade levels to reflect the high standards of our school's mission and the unique needs of our youngest learners, as well as the intensive instruction needed for students enrolled in the IB Diploma Programme.
Under normal circumstances, classes should not exceed the following limits:
First Steps and Pre-Primary: 16
Primary and Grade 1: 18
Grade 2 to Grade 10: 22
IB Diploma Standard Level Courses: 20
IB Diploma Higher Level Courses: 18
Classes for beginning languages should not exceed 18, and for English as a Second Language should not exceed 12.
Exceptional circumstances (subject to the approval of the Head of School) may occasionally require that classes be larger than the maximums stated above.
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