In your child’s class, how many siblings do most children have?

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Based on something I read about how the birth rate crunch is actually a lot to do with smaller families not childfree people:

In your child's class what's the main number of siblings? I totted up for my reception child and it was about 22 kids were one of two, 3 only children and 5 as one of 3. Having two kids seems very much the norm. Obviously it's reception so there could be more siblings later. We are home counties, reasonably affluent.

Yes agree. Unless your child has just joined the school or you are entirely oblivious to your surroundings, you tend to notice that Freddie's mum is pregnant and later has a baby that grows into a toddler; that parents are picking up multiple children from the school; that some children are picked up by older siblings; that some parents when talking about secondary schools mention they already have a child at the x school.

Of course this isn't foolproof. I assumed "Katy" was an only child until I bumped into her in the card shop with her mum buying a "Happy birthday brother" card (for a brother in their 20s). But it will give you an idea.

DDs reception class of 10
4 with 2 siblings
5 with 1 sibling
1 only child

I work full time but in my area it’s common to have all class parties in reception, attended by parents (and often siblings), so I’ve got to know most families in both kids classes over the years. Once you’ve chatted at a party you see them again at drop off, the next party, play dates etc etc.

So no, I’m not making lists or actively trying to remember but I do have a general sense of the make up of most families. Also helped by the fact that the vast majority of DC1’s friends have a sibling the same age as my DC2, so there is a huge overlap.

In our class, there are seven only children and seven with two or more siblings...so around have have one sibling.

I would say it’s pretty even of only children or 1 sibling. ( out of around 65 children)

I only know of one family locally that has 3,
and they are American.

My answer was approximate too as I couldn't remember the exact details of every family. There's a lot of families with a child in both of my kids classes which helps a bit though.

single children or one sibling. I’m not aware of any larger families, but they probably do exist in the class.

My DD is in year 3, there is one only child, vast majority have 1 sibling, a few have 2 siblings and 1 has 3 siblings but I couldn't give exact numbers.

In my daughters year group there are 4 onlies, 1 has 3 siblings, 1 has 2 siblings, the rest are one of two. Thats a year 5 class.