The headteacher of a school that is closing because it has too few pupils warned some families have fled London because they no longer feel “wanted or needed” since Brexit.
Jo Riley, head of the 150-year-old Randal Cremer primary in Hackney, said some of the most marginalised families in the area are feeling “pushed out, unwanted and unheard.”
Ms Riley’s school is earmarked for closure next summer. It has an intake of just 15 pupils for September, despite a capacity for 60.
It is the latest in a series of school closures to hit London, highlighted in the Evening Standard, due to a combination of a falling birth rate, soaring London living costs, lack of housing, Brexit and a post-pandemic exodus to the countryside.
