This chapter argues that the size of a secondary school directly affects students' learning, and indirectly through various features of the school. It contends that secondary schools should be smaller than they typically are. It also points out that decreasing size has a declining utility and that the ideal school size should not be determined by characteristics of the student population. It further argues that small schools are particularly effective for disadvantaged students.
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Lee, V. E. (2006). School Size and the Organization of Secondary Schools. In Handbook of the Sociology of Education (pp. 327–344). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36424-2_15
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