How do families pick between the three boards at The Gaudium School, and can children switch later?

juniper_violin_77421 May 2026

We live in the Financial District, so The Gaudium School keeps coming up when we think about our son, who's six, and later his little sister. What confuses me is the boards. The school lists CBSE, IGCSE and IB, and I can't work out how parents decide which one their child is on when joining in the primary years, or whether that can be changed later without a lot of pain. If you have a child there, or looked at it seriously, how did you think about this? We're a CBSE family by default, but I don't want to choose for a 6 year old out of habit.

4 comments

lagoon_hammock_219221 May 2026
we looked when my son was smaller. ended up somewhere closer to the hospital for my own sake, not because of anything about the school. remember being told the board question matters more in the later years but ask them yourself, i don't remember it well enough to repeat
juniper_gecko_338521 May 2026
Ask them what happens to a child who wants to switch in class 6 or class 9. Not 'it's flexible'. Which classes, what assessment, any extra cost. If they can't answer that specifically at the desk, that tells you something too.
- apricot_diary_833121 May 2026
  this is the question i'm parking for when ours is old enough. would like to hear what they say if you do ask
moss_pool_825421 May 2026
We didn't look at Gaudium, but when we were comparing schools that ran more than one curriculum, the deciding thing for us wasn't the board itself. It was how many children in that year were on each one. Being one of five in a stream is a very different experience from being one of thirty.
- juniper_violin_77421 May 2026
  Good point, I hadn't thought about how the numbers split. I'll ask how many are in each stream for his year. Up early with an incident call anyway, so this was useful reading.
peach_notebook_462522 May 2026
From the teaching side: in the early primary years, the difference between boards is smaller than it looks on paper. What a 6 year old feels day to day is the class teacher, the class size and how much writing is expected. The board starts to matter more in the middle years. So I'd choose for now on the classroom you see, and keep the switching question someone raised above for later.