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I believe team 3138 has about 200 kids in their program...I think. The school is the "science and math" school in the county, so they draw the general student population that expresses interest in robotics.
With that said, I think with 200 kids in the robotics program, only about 20ish are involved in FRC.
I can't guarantee the numbers above, but I know they have a hella large program
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Not to offend you in any way, but the students on our team had a good laugh after reading this.
We actually have about 20 students on the FRC team now, but during the FRC season we had 10-12 students. We also are not in any way from a "science and math" school; we are not even school supported. We started our own non-profit organization that supports our team. The organization also supports around 9 FLL teams, 6 of which we started and funded, and we will be mentoring 2 FTC teams. If all of the students from the FLL and FTC teams are taken into consideration, we have just over 100 students involved. We also do demonstrations to thousands of students each year.
So depending on how you look at it, we could be considered large, but we feel that we are not even close to one of the largest teams, even if all the students that we mentor are accounted for.
One of the other teams from dayton, Deca Robotics (3186), has had a lot of students join their team lately and it is still growing, and they are from a specialized school. Maybe you were thinking of them?