How many principals at your child's school?

[ajk912]

I am sure every school in the country is dealing with budget cuts. I was just thinking that I am hoping that my child's school cuts some of the administrative staff instead of cutting resources and special ed. I know it's not up to me, of course. Just wondering, really.

My kids' elementary school has a principal and two assistant principals. They also have a full time IEP writer person. (Not sure of the official title). There are about 1100 kids at the school.

 

[Mickey'snewestfan]

Speaking as a school administrator, I think you already have a pretty lean administrative staff. APs play important roles in schools.

My son attended our local public school for Kindergarten. The year before they had had a principal and an assistant principal for about 500 kids. They were told they had to cut one staff member and because of parent uproar about consolidating classes or cutting a specials teacher they cut the AP. My son had a first year teacher who made constant newbie mistakes, and without an AP there was no one to supervise or coach her -- my son basically lost out a year of education.

My son's current school has 375 kids on 2 campuses. They have a head of school, and a principal at each campus. I feel like everyone benefits from that level of leadership.

I work at a school with 400, we also have a head and 2 principals (1 PreK - 3rd, 1, 4th - 6th). Again, all three are going full tilt all day -- cutting one would be a disaster.

 

[Leajess99]

I am sure every school in the country is dealing with budget cuts. I was just thinking that I am hoping that my child's school cuts some of the administrative staff instead of cutting resources and special ed. I know it's not up to me, of course. Just wondering, really.

My kids' elementary school has a principal and two assistant principals. They also have a full time IEP writer person. (Not sure of the official title). There are about 1100 kids at the school.

We have 1 Head Principal and 1 Assistant Principal. Our school did cut some jobs at the end of last year but then they ended up hiring a new kindergarten teacher because of the need to add another class. We had a new school open in our district and we still have the largest school. The new school was supposed to take some kids from our school to help with the numbers but that didn't happen so well. We only lost maybe 100 to 125 kids but then picked up enough kindergarteners for 7 classes.

 

[homedad]

i'm 90% sure that DS7 and DD5 have only one principle at their public ele

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

At DD9's elementary school they have 1 Principal and 2 Assistant Principals.

At DS13's middle school they have 1 Principal and 3 Assitant Principals (1 for each grade level).

 

[las3888]

There are 3 principals at the grade school my son will attend. I personally feel it is overkill myself.

 

[velrox]

My husband is a lone principal, with no assistant principals for about 500 elemtary students. It is a great district, and he seems to be handling it fine for now. Of course my son believes that my husbands admin is the one that really runs the show, as she has been with the school for about 20 years!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

We have only one principal and no assistance for about 850 kids.

 

[pixiemomamy]

One principal here that would be my husband and he is only the principal of 3 kids... We Homeschool...

 

[daisyduck123]

Around here, it absolutely depends upon the # of students in the school.

In the elem. I teach in, we have slightly over 600 students, which means we're allotted 1 Principal & 1 Asst. Principal.

DS10's school has about the same # of kids, so they also have 1 Principal, & 1 Asst. Principal.

 

[a1tinkfans]

My DS High School has 1464 students, 1 Principal (AWESOME) and three Asst
Principals! (9th thru 12th grades)

Our town is so big they split the High School so the other school has matching criteria, similar amount of kids.

 

[ilandrazdsw]

There is usually one principal and then the number of assistant principals usually depends on the number of students in the school. It could vary between ele, MS, & HS. At our MS we had one principal and 3 aps (6,7,8). We also had an ESE director. Teachers were to write the IEPs though. He would schedule IEP meetings, precheck IEPs to make sure the teachers' had written them in the correct from, lead the meetings, and schedule testing (depending on the test he would administer the test). He would also deal with ese behavior issues.

DS' school is 1-12 and has a principal. There is an asst principal, but I believe she also teaches because there is no asst principal office. Budget cuts...the school needs to cut the principal!

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

I'm a teacher at a school of about 750 kids PK-5.

We have:
1 principal
4 assistant principals
1 dean
3 "instructional coaches"
2 principals in training
2 instructional consultants (part time)

 

[PrincessTiffany]

i'm 90% sure that DS7 and DD5 have only one principle at their public ele

They don't have a vice-principal?

 

[PrincessTiffany]

I'm a teacher at a school of about 750 kids PK-5.

We have:
1 principal
4 assistant principals
1 dean
3 "instructional coaches"
2 principals in training
2 instructional consultants (part time)

Now that might be overkill.

 

[PrincessTiffany]

Now that might be overkill.

At my three younger kids elementary school, K-3, with about 1,000 pupils, they have 1 principal and 2 vice-principals.

At my older daughters intermediate school, 4-6 grades, they have about 800 pupils and 1 principal with 1 vice-principal.

 

[waltskids]

DS is only 2, so not in school yet , but the school where DH and I work we have one principal and two assistant principals. This is a middle school with 700 students.

 

[star sweeper]

My kids aren't in school, but I used to teach middle school. Our middle school was grades 6-8 with 2200 kids, 1 principal and 5 assistant principals (1 for each grade level, 1 for Special Education, and 1 for English as a Second Language children). I think we could have gotten by with 4 by combining Special Education and ESL.

 

[Manda]

My son's school just has one Principal, but his school (elementary) has less than 400 students. He does have an administrative assistant, but no vice-Principal or anything.

I went to a small elementary, too, and we just had one Principal. My junior high was maybe 600 kids (total guess) and we had a Principal, Vice-Principal, and Dean of Students (in charge of punishment, basically). I think my high school (close to 3000 students) had a Principal, two vice-principals, and two Deans.

 

[princessmom29]

I teach at a public high school with about 1500 students. We have 1 pricipal 3 assistants and an administative intern. Believe me we need them all. It takes one preson just to take care of scheduling/ credit issues and parent calls/ conferences ect. The others are needed to keep the peace around here. They have to deal with every child sent out of class for behavior, call that child's parent, do the paperwork necessary to hand out punishment, meet with the parents of suspended children before they can be readmitted. Not to mention that they need to actually be in the halls policing students during class changes, lunch, before and after school. Honestly we need more help not less. We have a lot of male teachers who have essentially taken on the role of assistants b/c they don't have enough hours in the day to deal with everybody and everything that needs doing.