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Just heard that 21 of the 30 places in the school we hope DS will go to next Sept are going to siblings, which means there will only a handful of onlies (or just him?) in his class (as a number of the remaining 9 children will have younger siblings).

How many onlies in your only child's class? Does anyone actually know the statistics from the latest census on family size? I'm feeling a bit in the minority today!

I'm not sure now, as there has been some movement in and out of the class.

As far as I know, there are 3 onlies. There are also a few children who have very much older step- and half-siblings who don't live with them, so they are the only children currently living at home (which I know isn't the same thing).

I don't know
do people usually know all the kids in their child's class? That's 30 children!

I am not sure about all 30 but I think that there are maybe around four or five out of DS's class (incl DS) I know three for certain and that 20 definitey have siblings.

At DS nursery it was a different story ALL of his friends (six others) were only children.

When you've been at the school for years - and there are some children who you've known them from birth - then sometimes you do! I spend very little time in the playground, so there are other parents who are much au fait than I am.

I know of 3 - there may be more.

I'm pretty sure there is only one in DS's class (though not entirely confident about a couple of the girls) and there may not be any in DD's. There's definitely none among the girls.

It's a 2.4 children kind of a village.

Only two in DS's class.

More than half.

So much for living in Catholic Italy huh?

In my ds's year 6 class there are 2 only children. And 1 is in a family of 8 children. Most are 2 or 3.

I think of ds's class of 14, 4 are only children

Four in ds reception class , but I guess some of them may still be panning to have more children

i dont know over our 2 class recpetion year but we have 4 sets of twins, so that's 4 who may possibly have been onlies that aren't

somebody clever will pop up with statistics later would be interesting to read!

Class of ... um ... 29 currently. As well as DD two of the boys are definitely onlies, and there's one girl and two boys who I can't put the faces of siblings to.

At least eleven children are from families of three or more children.

my ds is the only only! although there are only 6 children in his class, 2 of which are twins .

My DD is one of three onlies - one of the others being one of her closest friends. It's strange - it's a church school, so I also have the dubious honour of being one of only 2 single parents too. I don't feel left out or lacking particularly though (unless I choose to wallow in it).

Some of the kids you think are on lies might actually be the eldest child in a family though.

Sorry OP I re read your post and you already said that. In DSs class there is him and 2 other kids. Or 1 in 7.

Absolutely no idea.

Are we supposed to know this sort of thing?

OUt of the 30 in ds1's yr 1 class, I know of1 only child. I think that 1 of the girls in the corresponding class is an only child. So 2 out of 60. I know because I've probably seen all the parents at some point or other at pick up or drop off or via dd (lots of year 1s have older siblings).

Larger families seem to be quite common in our school. Know of several children in ds1's class who have3 or more siblings.

I don't even know the names of most of the class let alone their family situation! Who knows this sort of information - really?

3/8 of my NCT class are onlies.
I can think of two girls in DDs class brought up as onlies ( one has a very much older half sister who lives with her mum). There are probably others, but DDs out.

Cece DD2 probably knows this info for almost the entire 100 pupil school, but she's at a sleep over. I wouldn't have a clue and DD1 wouldn't either

There are no only children in my dd's class (of 18). Even last year, when there were 24, none were onlies. She is 6.

Cece - I know their family situations because we always invite the whole class to dd's birthday party and I talk to the parents.