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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in London. My elementary aged children are in a private british prep school. If you are coming for a year I would recommend you consider other options than the ASL. It is a nice school but your kids will be surrounded by Americans and more than likely so will you! Also if you go that route you are somewhat limited to St. John's Wood and other north london areas which are ok, but not wonderful.

As with any city the best public schools are oversubscribed and here you often need to live on the doorstep to get a spot since spot allocation is often based on proximity. But I do think it's worth researching, as are public schools affiliated with Church of England which tend to rank better. I would narrow down a list of family friendly areas (Clapham, Chiswick, Richmond, Ealing, etc) where there is a good concentration of publics and privates so you have many choices. Transient/expat areas like Kensington, Chelsea, Holland Park, will also give you options but at a higher living cost.

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I lived for many years in Kensington and Chelsea, as well as Holland Park /  Notting Hill. The only schools there which are acceptable are the privates. In Holland Park - near Royal Crescent the local state school (I researched when pregnant) had a 95% non-English speaking student body. Literally non-English speaking. Now it doesn't mean those kids won't become fluent in English but its not the right learning environment for a native English speaker.[/quote]

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