school with 1 year group, that goes all the way through

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it's boarding, 24 girls but all of the same age and in the same class. They move through the school together until they finish school, do exams, etc. then the next set is taken on.

Hypothetical, so please, please no arguing

Opinions?

as a PP mentioned - the mentoring of younger students, being placed in a position of authority, encouragement of nurturing - very important parts of schooling too.

Most people would want their children to go to the same school. If the next intake is 5 years later it would massively alienate the majority of prospective parents on that basis.

So, I couldn't send the younger sibling at the same time?
Teachers only teaching something once ever 5/7 years.
Far too small.
I wouldn't be sending my (hypothetical) daughters.

Either you'd have to get one teacher that could cover everything up to a-level (impossible) or you'd have to get various specialists in for an hour or two at a time (impractical).

Not viable from a business pov. Or educational.

24 in one class is a big class for a private school. Plus all of the other many disadvantages mentioned by PPs above.

24 in a class is fine for teaching as long as all those children are academically of a similar level and interested in the same things. DD goes to a school where the teaching sets are around this size but there are four or five teaching classes in a year. What if you have four people out of your 24 who want to do triple science, three who want to do Latin and Greek, five who would like to do several modern languages and six who are only interested in humanities and would like to do all three of history, geography and RE while the rest are all rounders or interested in the arts or any number of other permuations? And that is just GCSEs never mind A Levels.

The timetabling would be impossible. Some children might be in a class of one or two for some subjects. And being in a very small class for any subject actually isn't that great - you need other people to spark ideas off, to discuss things with, to get different opinions and points of view. The actual academic offering would have to be very limited in order to get enough people in each class and a teacher for every subject.

The friendship groups would be stifling. If you happened to be a bit out of step with your class, socially or culturally or in terms of maturity, you'd probably have a miserable time.

You couldn't have an orchestra or build up links with other schools for sports matches or social events or anything else.

There wouldn't be enough children to cater for all of them in terms of clubs etc. A coding club or a journalism initiative or politics society will be quite dull if there are two people in it.

It sounds horrible for the children, and quite weird/unnatural. While children are generally schooled with others of the same age, they do benefit hugely from mixing between year groups eg in clubs. DD would have missed out on a number of things that she is really interested in if she was in an environment like this.