Have you ever been in an "average-sized" class?

You don’t define average sized.

In college over 90% of my classes were between 30–50 students. I think that is probably average sized. Some were smaller and some were much bigger.

How big of a college? I’ll be driving through one today with about 2500 students. I went to a school with 25,000 students.

My school had 45,000 students if that matters. I went to a community college for 1.5 years, I have no idea how many students there.

“Average class size” refers to the number of students in a single room, not the number if students in the whole school.

I thought maybe @Adirondackwannabe was stating the school size, because the class sizes might be different averages in larger schools.

I went to college and found classes that had 40 people in them when term began, and by the end only had a handful.
In Elementary, we had around 25, as I recall. I may have to count the kids from the class pictures.

My high school class consisted of only 20 students.

And my university class was supposed to have 38 students. But for some reasons some students just “disappeared”, leaving the class with about 30 students.

What’s more, you can’t imagine the class size at some “boring” lessons, or the time near the holiday.

The average class size at my school is about 22–25 students per classes. People disappear in my classes, too, making the class size in the teens sometimes.
These are my current class sizes:
19/20
18/22
24/25
26/30
30/30
Here are the stats from last semester:
20/22
22/22
14/30
37/40
14/20
[addition]: I just looked it up, and my school advertises an average class size of 21.

@dxs Ah, the mean, the medium, and the mode. An advertised “average” means nothing if you don’t know the context.
You have no doubt heard the expression “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

@filmfann Statistics can be very deceiving. If it makes it any fairer, I’ve only taken mostly the intro (100 level) classes so far, which are larger on average.

In college freshman year would be in an auditorium with over a hundred. Average size was your typical sophmore class in your field. ~30 or so. Junior year it would be around 20 and senior year perhaps 10 or 15.

My first quarter of college I was in an English 1A class of about 20; a 2nd year Calculus class of about 15; a U.S. History class of about 150, and a Philosophy 1 class of 900. That averages out to about 270 or so, so three out of four classes I took were smaller than average.

So much for manipulating data. But what it boils down to at the University level, class size means little.

What’s average?

In my college, we had classes ranging from 10 students all the way up to 250, depending on the course. Most were in the 40–50 range, but I had a handful with more than 200 students enrolled. The larger classes usually consisted of a lecture portion of a class that included many different “sections” consisting of 30ish students. For example, I took a history class and we had lecture in a huge hall with all of the students taking that class, but our discussion class (usually once per week) was split up among the TAs, so there were fewer of us there on those days.

Indeed, what is average? I’m doing two majors, and they have wildly different class sizes. For my math and physics related classes, my current math class has around 30 students, although previous ones have had up to maybe 150. My current physics class has around 70 students, and I took another one with up to 150 students (I estimate :P )
With music classes though, the largest I’ve taken was a music history class with maybe 30 students- my current counterpoint class has 9, my piano studio has 5 students (but my lessons are private, as are my composition lessons). Ear training was usually around 10 students and theory maybe 15–20. My current music history class has around 15 students.
Once again, I ask you- what is average?