When Liverpool college became an academy and stopped charging fees, it needed to increase class sizes (from 20 to 25 pupils), but Broekman was determined to keep the small scale structure of the school.
While there remain conflicting reports on the exact scale of the current school closures, between January and December 2014 alone there were at least 68 attacks on schools across Syria, according to data available to UNICEF.
But if the ambitious scale of the two schools' response is unusual, the underlying problem, namely the rise of English as a lingua franca throughout the Arab world and the consequent decline of Arabic, has prompted increasing concern.
We examined the psychometric properties of the Student Perceptions of School Cohesion SPSCC) scale, a 10-item scale that asks students to rate with a 5-point Likert-type response scale their perceptions of the school social environment, in a sample of public secondary school students (mean age = 15 years) living in central El Salvador.
"But given the scale of the demand for school places, the physical constraints of existing school buildings – many of which are already full – and funding shortfalls, boroughs still face a huge challenge.
"London local authorities are working hard to try to ensure that they can offer every child a school place for the start of the new academic year but given the scale of the demand for school places across the capital this is becoming increasingly difficult".
The full scale of the abuse at the school is only now starting to emerge.
When the principal climbed aboard to cajole him, Bailey bolted out the door, scaled the side of the school and sought refuge on the roof, from which he threw pebbles at the strangers below.
Taliban gunmen scaled the walls of the school's compound on Tuesday morning before going on a shooting spree, killing 141 children and staff, in one of the worst assaults in the country's recent history.
The compact scale of the off-campus schools in Riverhead and Sayville is part of their success, some planners say.
