Kensington Prep or outstanding state primary WWYD?

[BigMamaMama]

Has anyone chosen an outstanding state primary over a top prep school and regretted it? We are planning to go independent for secondary. I'm sure the education is close enough between the prep and state but I would think the stress of the 11+ would be much less at the prep as they are so well prepared there. Is there anything else I should be considering?

"On closer inspection of the report, Ofsted did point out their weakness in catering to the more able children's needs, yet ranked them outstanding. Shambles."

Out of interest, what words did OFSTED use?

"The gap between g and F is only 0.5 points on the scale used, the gap between A and A is 1.5 points, the gap between D and C is 1 point. So getting A children to get A is definitely a focus for schols."

This is a real issue for schools like ours, with a disproportionately low ability cohort.

Everyone I know at KP used a tutor for 11+

There are lots of state kids in my dcs' very selective London secondary who are keeping up just fine

BUT I moved my dc from a good, not outstanding, state primary (Not sure how much these labels really mean) at 7 to a selective prep and they both thrived in a way they had not at the secondary. Both often said to me, unprompted, how good it was to be really pushed in class, how the work at their old school was too easy. My friend who's a teacher at same school agrees with me that the brightest kids, even though they are in a top band and often taught separately, are not sufficiently challenged