at school than students at the old
crowded Shepaug—right?
It turns out that there is a very elegant
way to test whether this is true.
Connecticut has a lot of schools like
Shepaug. It’s a state with many small
towns with small elementary schools,
and small schools in small towns are
subject to the natural ebbs and flows of
birthrates and real-estate prices—which
means that a grade can be all but empty
one year and crowded the next. Here are
the enrollment records, for example, for
the fifth grade in another Connecticut
middle school:
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