DD goes to Sutton High Prep School where recently class sizes have nearly doubled in the last year. Years 4, 5 and 6 are currently 23-24 per class. We moved to Sutton high based on promises of small class sizes as advertised on their school website. Little did we know how misleading this was….
Sutton High has historically struggled to fill class sizes but due to the pandemic, like many private schools around this area, they have seen a high number of applications.
When I raised this issue with the head, she said that GDST policy was max class size is 24. Nowhere in the school prospectus is this stated and when asked about quote on website, she said this is an average small class size where the small EYFS class size averages down the larger class sizes in the upper prep school.
On top of this, the classrooms are so small that the girls have difficulty going to the loo and sometimes need to crawl out. There is no TA. Only one teacher for all 24 girls.
I felt my complaint fell on deaf ears with the head referring to GDST policy, claiming to be out of her hands but I was surprised to hear from different GDST schools that they had lower class size limit. For example, Oxford GDST state on their website “on average class size are around 16. We seek to keep it under 20". Anyone else who goes to a GDST school that has class sizes less than 24 so I can take it up with the head again? Thank you.