AP Literature overcrowding issue this 2024-2025 school year has caused numerous students to experience significant schedule changes, either interrupting or benefiting their academic proficiency. Students who had registered to take the AP Literature course have experienced overcrowded classrooms due to the sheer amount of students signing up for the popular class. With increased class sizes, students seemed to have increased difficulties in the course. Layla Applebaum said, “The class should be seminar style with discussions, but you can’t have good discussions when the class is really big.” Furthermore, Mr. Essex said that overcrowding affects the course because “It diminishes the ability to have individualized instruction…you almost need to assign less writing just to get through it.”

Once Administration put in hard work and came up with the solution of opening an entirely new 5th period of the class taught by Mr. Boyd. Many students were transferred into this new classroom to reduce class size. Mr. McVay said, “We created a fifth period with Mr. Boyd, and we tried to balance out both 5th periods. With students in the waitlist, we asked them if they wanted to move, but some of them decided that they didn’t want to move up”. Although the solution did help many, several students have voiced their opinions and thought of other solutions that would have benefitted them more. Nathaniel Muus said, “A better solution would’ve been having a pole to ask students whether or not they wanted to switch to the new class.” Some were switched to a teacher whose class they didn’t want to attend, but due to policy at La Jolla High, students are allowed to choose their course but not their teacher. Though some remain frustrated by the solution, the overcrowding issue has been resolved, and AP Literature classrooms are now significantly more manageable.