Footnotes

1.  Size for grades 1-3     4.  Size for kindergarten through 3rd grade
2.  Size for grades 3-5     5.  Does not include English and math classes, 
3.  Size for grades 2-6         which have fewer students.

NOTE:  Numbers are rouinded Most figures are actual averages.  For school
districts that could not provide that information, the numbers are the guidelines
on student-teacher ratios that officials said they try to follow.

SOURCE:  The Washington Post, December 15, 1997, which cites as its
source "Public and private school officials".