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Really, how big are high school classes in L.A.? You tell us.

Luis Natalio, Alberto Garcia, Ryan Flores and Milton Hernandez work together in their ninth-grade advisory class at Los Angeles Big Picture High School last December.

Luis Natalio, Alberto Garcia, Ryan Flores and Milton Hernandez work together in their ninth-grade advisory class at Los Angeles Big Picture High School last December.

(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)
By Daniela Gerson
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Welcome back to class.

How packed are your classes? L.A. Unified and United Teachers Los Angeles are implementing new maximum class size regulations and efforts to solve overcrowding. For the 2015-16 school year the number of students in grades 9-11 should not exceed 37 for magnet schools and those designated as predominantly Latino, black and Asian. For the remaining schools that number should not exceed 43. In the upper grades maximum class size is 46 students. Tell us your experiences with class size as the school year gears up, and any measures your school is taking to make sure it falls within these limits. Students, teachers and parents: Please share information about your class sizes with us. We may follow up with you for more information. Thank you!

You can reach Daniela Gerson on Twitter @DHGerson and by email at Daniela.Gerson@LATimes.com. 

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Daniela Gerson

Daniela Gerson was a community engagement editor at the Los Angeles Times. She left in 2016. As a journalist and educator, her work focuses on multiethnic communities and innovations in participatory media. She was previously the director of the Civic Engagement and Journalism Initiative at USC’s Annenberg School. Gerson was the founding editor of Alhambra Source, a research-based site investigating how local news can foster civic engagement. She also developed Reporter Corps, a program to train young adults to report on their own communities. Gerson has contributed to the Financial Times Magazine, the New York Times, PRI’s The World, Der Spiegel, WNYC, and was a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun. Daniela is the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt and Arthur F. Burns fellowships. A graduate of Brown University and USC Annenberg, she speaks Spanish and Portuguese, and can get by in German and Hebrew.

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