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What % of kids are leaving your private school?

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CinnamonCinnabar · 23/06/2025 14:55

So far 15% of my youngest kid's private primary school class have announced they are leaving. I don't know how this is reflected across the whole school year or further up the school, except that they are reducing the number of classes in my kid's year in the autumn.

I'm in Scotland so we're about to break up for the holidays - anyone wanting to avoid autumn term fees would need to know their plans by now. Anyone else have a feel for changes to numbers at their school?

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Nushi21 · 23/06/2025 16:58

I don’t know numbers of people leaving for financial reasons but in my son’s private school there are 6 leaving for 10+ places at top independent secondary schools.
I live in SW London, I’m originally from a small Lincolnshire town with zero competition or knowledge of 11+ before my child was born or my move to London.
The parents all have high fly jobs like top people at law firms and global financial companies that are mentioned in Forbes.
The subject of leaving the private school is quite literally taboo.
We on the other hand just manage to get by and are considering moving our son possibly to a state school for his final year.
Our youngest is at a state school. We simply can’t afford it.

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