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

[pilates]

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.

[mumblechum]

30

[sue52]

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.

[LimaCharlie]

Depends on subject but no more than 28

[Acanthus]

25 (independent grammar)

[roisin]

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.

[BigGreenBin]

27 - primary

[JGBMum]

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

[pilates]

Thanks everyone.

[violethill]

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

[antshouse]

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

[stripeyknickersspottysocks]

15 - state primary.

[stripeyknickersspottysocks]

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

[loopyloops]

(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.

[Kez100]

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.

[nearlytoolate]

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!

[cory]

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

[Citrus81]

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

[Litchick]

20 - independent secondary.

[exexpat]

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.

[Ripeberry]

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.