Moving schools in year 4

[Tordi7]

Help!
Struggling to decide if moving my daughter who's in year 4 to another school is a good idea...
Her current school is very small & although she is very happy there & doing well a number of children have left leaving my daughter being only 1 of 2 girls in her whole year. (6 children in total). There are pros & cons to this but currently this means there will be no other girls going to the same secondary school so considering moving her to make news friends to help the transition to secondary.
Does anyone have any experience with this & can offer some advise?
Is moving her purely for friendship reasons a good idea? Really torn.
Worried how unsettling this could be for her.
Thank you

If there are only 6 in the year, how many year groups do they combine?
I'm not sure moving to help with transition is worth it as schools split primary kids up.
But might be worth it for next 2.5 years?

That’s a very small group of potential friends, and you are just coming up to the age where they seem to fall out over the slightest thing. I would also worry that moving from such a small school to secondary could be overwhelming.
My dd’s experience of a small class within a single form entry village school wasn’t great, only 6 girls and they turned on her during y5, because she was quirky. In a larger school she might have been happier. At secondary she found her tribe and is still quirky, but happy. If you have options, I would move.

I moved my son in time for start of year 6 and no regrets here. My main motivation was transition to secondary- half the class moved up to the same one. He didn’t keep those friendships in secondary but it made the transition much easier.

I can’t imagine a school with 6 per year - if the new school is at least 30 per year then it might help in other ways too because I assume that the secondary school will be more like 200 per year.

I moved DS at the end of year 4 from a tiny prep to a bigger junior department of a school that goes to 18. He settled really well and it made for an easy transition to secondary.

They combine 2 year groups where she is but can only have 15 per year group. There is currently 16 across both year groups, only 6 in her year.
Her potential new school has 12 girls & 12 boys & is a feeder school to the secondary she will go to.