Let's count the 26 survivors from Ms. Soto's class at Sandy Hook

These numbers that finally came out pertaining to Victoria Soto's class, together, don't add up. Was the situation so chaotic that everyone simply lost the ability to count? The most details come from earlier, unsanitized, more descriptive reporting. The earlier reports contains clearer, straighter information. Help me out guys.
1. Police - finding "7 kids safe in the closet."
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2. 6 kids (4 girls 2 boys) at Gene Rosen's house. "Mrs. Soto is dead." They each left with parents.
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Gene Rosen, parents and group walk over to firehouse?
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3. Aidan Licata plus 1 girl and 1 boy ran away. A woman picked them up in her van and took them to police station.
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"The children got out"
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4. Jen Maksel sees 5 additional Soto students at firehouse, while searching for her son, and-
5. 5 more Soto students, boys, including Bryce Maksel have been taken to Newtown police station by "two moms".
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26 students survived from Soto's class.

Soto's class picture shows 15 kids.
Yet they finally said 5 of Soto's students perished?
It's hard to make sense when you don't know which ones survived.

"5 slain 9 survived" 14?
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class of 16?
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Class picture:
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What can you make of this?
Teachers on Facebook: "He killed her and not one of her children were harmed."
Friend on Tumblr: "Not one of her students were harmed."
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Soto hurried her first-graders into a bathroom near Classroom 10, just beyond the school’s main glass doors. Two students stood on the toilet. Others huddled on the floor. With no space left, Soto stepped out of the small room herself, a witness said. A 20-year-old man wearing black stepped into the classroom and shot her before quickly exiting the room.
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Not to mention that there was apparently 14, not 15 victims in Mrs. Rousseau's class.
"...14 of her students and a special-education aide."
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"The gunman shot all 14 students in the classroom, law enforcement officers said."
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