UPDATE: the class size data was finally posted late in the afternoon on Friday Dec. 3, 18 days after the legal deadline; see the article in Gothamist. Accurate data for last year still hasn't been provided and probably never will. Our analysis of this year's data will follow soon. .
According to a Local Law 125 passed in 2005, the DOE is required to report on class size data by school, district, borough and citywide each year by Nov. 15, and then again on Feb. 15.
Nov. 15 was two days ago, and yet class size data for this year has not yet been posted. We have a clock below that started at midnight Nov. 15, to track how late the data is posted -- if it ever will.
The DOE still hasn't posted accurate data for last year's class sizes, despite a promise in writing by Deputy Chancellor Karin Goldmark to CM Mark Treyger that they would do so last year, and sworn testimony before the City Council by Chancellor Meisha Porter to CM Dromm about this as well.
Instead, last February, three months late, they posted the data for (very small) in-person classes only, rather than providing any data on the remote or blended learning class sizes. This is despite the fact that they were collecting data on the size of these classes separately since the beginning of the school year.
I will be checking regularly, but you can as well on the DOE website here; and if you see any class size data for the 2021- 2022 school year, please email us at info@classsizematters.org.
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