AS subject - how many students needed to run subject?

[hellsbells99]

Hi all. Would be grateful if anyone (particularly teachers) could let me know what the minimum number of students your (state) school normally requires to run an AS class. This is a class that would be AS only for 1 year. Thanks

'I think it's'

We generally say we need at least 10 students, but we have a class of 5 for the AS German next year - otherwise we would have teachers with gaps in their timetables. We have told the students that we can't promise that we will be able to continue it at A2.

If, however, it would cause staffing issues, then we would have had to say that we couldn't run a course for just 5 students.

It's 8 at my school, and as a result I have had classes made of a combination of yr 12 & yr 13 students for the last few years. This coming September will be the first time I've ever had separate classes (approx 12-14 in each) For KS5, the students have 9x1 hour lessons per fortnight - that's a lot of time in a teacher's timetable and it's expensive - budget constraints are a massive consideration, particularly at KS5.

It's 4 at my DCs school. Music has been running at that number. DS is doing Geology with 6, and FM with about 8.

FM is twilight though, one lunchtime and one after school session. Other subjects are 4 taught hours and 1 hour supervised study weekly

FM can be done on one lunchtime and one after school session? To cover six courses over 2 years? I can't imagine how that can be done. They will be pretty much self-teaching surely.