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[quote=Anonymous]The problem is that the answer is just “it depends on factors you can’t know in advance.”

My kid went to a k-8 and had 23 or 24 kids in the class by 8th grade (started at 29 I think, in 5th, but some attrition during the covid years as a few students moved away). DC loved it, had a great group of friends, and the one or two problematic personalities left after 5th. It was a wonderful experience.

It could easily have gone the other way — those problematic personalities tended to pull in several students who were fine if those influences weren’t around, but if those students had stayed, it could have been a much more difficult time, for example, without more students to buffer the problem group. Or DC might not have found the one really good friend in 5th that grew into a group of several good friends by 8th. There doesn’t have to be anything actually wrong with a school for a child to not really click with anyone and feel isolated and lonely.

But there’s no way to predict any of that. [/quote]

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