Houses and classes

[Astrid Wootton]

No: HPFGUIDX 89166


Shaun Hately wrote:
It depends on the school - houses are a convenient administrative grouping,
so they are sometimes used to assign classes - but certainly not all schools
do that. I had five years in schools run on British lines and from memory,
we went like this.

Peter wrote
Forgive me asking, but was there also some kind of "sorting" into the
houses? Or could you choose which house to go to? Did the teachers
decide?

Astrid writing now
At school in the UK we had 10 houses in a school of 360. So 36 students to a
house, with roughly 5 to each year level. We ate and slept, socialised, did
³prep² and played sport (twice a day: 8.00 ‹8.30 am and 2.00‹4.00pm!) in our
houses, but classes were academically streamed into 3--4 streams, and thus
about 50 students *across* houses were needed at each year level to divide
students by perceived academic ability. 10 -- 18 students per class was
normal.

When arriving at the school it was possible to request a house, and some
families always requested the same house, between siblings and across
generations. If you didn¹t request a house you were allocated one.

Hogwarts having (I believe) about 280 students but only 4 houses, arrived at
a similar class size, but classes were unstreamed.

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