How private schools segregate students by class and strengthen social divisions

By Sol Gamsu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Durham University

If you want to see how private schools in the UK can reinforce segregation between children of different social classes, the London Borough of Southwark provides a good example.

It has three large private secondary schools, less than in other wealthier London boroughs. When we took a close look at these schools, we found that 75% of the students are from the top two social classes: from families with higher professional and managerial backgrounds.

By contrast, in two of the 13…

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