Should I keep my daughter at her private school ??

[mummyloveslucy]

I'm really not sure what to do about my daughters schooling. She is 3.5 and in a nursery linked to a private girls school that goes from 2-18 years. She really enjoys the nursery and we love the school. We had planned for her to stay there for the juniors at least and hopfully she would pass her 11+ and go to the grammer school.
She has a speech disorder and co-ordination difficulties, and we don't know wether she will later have difficulties in reading/ wrighting. The school she is at is very accademic and is in the top 5% in the country for exam results etc. I'm not sure now wether it is going to be the right environment for her. She would benefit from the small classes but is 1 teacher to 15 pupils the same as 1 teacher and 1 assistant to 30 pupils ?
I really want to do the right thing for her but I'm not sure what that is. She absoluitly loves music, so she might do very well in that area.
Would it be fair on her to take her out of the school she loves and put her in to a good state school? She is quite shy in large groups of people.
I know that is she didn't go to the private school then she could have music lessons etc.
What would you do ??

Sorry don't had time to read all 150+ posts but wanted to answer this question "is 1 teacher to 15 pupils the same as 1 teacher and 1 assistant to 30 pupils"

IME No its not the same. Our infants and primary have 1 teacher and 1 Teaching Assistant per class of up to 30 but this doesnt mean that the TA is there all day, alot only work part-time.

Also if TA is off (courses, sick, holidays etc) they dont often get a replacement where as I would think that if the class teacher of 15 is off they would have supply cover.

Thanks Mrs weasley.