How many children are there in your child's state school classroom?

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Am looking at secondary schools for my daughter and may be the possibility of sending her to a private school. Just weighing up all the pros and cons.

30

30 grammar school but achieves much better exam results than our local private school and there is the added benefit of not costing £5500 a term in day fees.

Depends on subject but no more than 28

25 (independent grammar)

ds1 has around 30 in every subject. I think it may be up to 32 in some.

It's a fabulous school. Some state schools have smaller classes, even for top sets. But it doesn't necessarily make them a better school.

Local inde has around 15 in a class I think, which is obviously going to have a massive difference.

27 - primary

Depends on the subject! Max is 30 (top group maths), generally around 25 for other subjects. (state comp)

Thanks everyone.

24 average. Some sets in certain subject are more, some are a lot less. We tend to keep accelerated sets for the really bright,and the bottom sets, around 15

27 in each year 7 class at girl's comp.

15 - state primary.

Duh - just realised this is in secondary education topic. Sorry.

(teacher so not DC) but

Generally year 7 - 28
Y8 top set - 30-32
Y8 middle set - 26-30
Y8 bottom set - 8-12
Y9 top set - 30-32
Y9 middle set - 20-28
Y9 bottom set - 6-10
Y10 top set - 12-20
Y10 middle set - 10-20
Y10 bottom set - 4-12
Y11 top set - 12-20
Y11 middle set - 10-20
Y11 bottom set - 4-12

This is languages, in a good state school.

Other subjects and schools will do things differently.

24. Smaller for GCSE. Larger for tutor time, but that's not a formal lesson. My daughters been very lucky and had 20 in English this year.

Can't see the point of this thread tbh. What are the class sizes in the schools you are looking at? They are the only ones that are relevant!

24-32 in dd's state school (Yr 8), depending on subject

tbh I don't think it matters all that much at this age; they are not babies that need teacher's individual attention; what matters is that they can easily arrange to see their tutor when they need to

dd reckons bigger classes are an advantage at this age, as a big group makes for more interesting discussions, more people to have ideas

also, she says, in a smaller class, anyone who is not part of the in-group can feel really excluded: a bigger class allows for more varied interactions

24 but thats because there are 8 year 7 tutor groups.

20 - independent secondary.

Usually 30, but DS had 38 in his 'outstanding' state primary year 4 class. They hardly had enough elbow room to write.... School has since switched things round to mixed age classes and brought them down under 30.

12 state primary but tiny village school, total school only has 65 pupils.
A mum drives 20 miles each way just to come to our school as all her local ones are 30+ kids for reception.