State primary (St Pauls C E in Winchmore Hill) v Keble prep school?

[Winchmoreparents]

My son received an offer for a place St Pauls C E primary in Winchmore Hills a couple of days ago which was quite surprising. As we did not think we would get a place at a good state school for the past year we have been considering private preps and have viewed many schools not being able to find one we were 100% about. Having heard that Keble is becoming co-ed we booked a viewing of the school. However now that we have a place at St Pauls I feel like I have a very hard decision to make. My son is the youngest in his class and will be starting reception. I do not know if he will benefit more from a private prep education where the class would be max 10-20 children. I really do not know how to go about this. Any feedback on these schools will be much appreciated. Private v state primary education is a hard one especially as there are not many good private preps locally in enfield.

Do you feel it would be worth the 100k it would cost you to send him to Keble?
How else could you use that money to benefit him?
I'd be tempted to start him at the primary and see how he gets on if you like it!

(Preps will struggle financially over next few years so very likely to have occasional places)

I wouldn't give upa good state school for Keble, no. Wait till he's a but older or if things are going wrong you'll be able to move him. There's lots of spaces this year in London. Even some of the super popular Muswell Hill primaries had no catchments for the first time in 20+ years.