| Summary: | This paper describes children’s experiences of school mobility and attempts to fill the gap in the research on changing schools and children’s experiences in the Indian context. The paper makes use of three different sets of data from Young Lives: the longitudinal data from the main household and child-level research carried out in 2002, 2006–07 and 2009 (in order to develop school histories of the children); an extensive school survey conducted in 2010 (to study the quality and effectiveness of the education experienced by a sub-sample of Younger Cohort children, then aged 9–10), which uncovered that many children had changed school at least once by the age of 9; and a qualitative sub-study carried out in 2011 that looked into the processes of parental decision-making about schools, the factors that explained school mobility and the children’s experiences of moving school. It is argued that that the children’s experiences and their adjustment to the new school environment often depended on where the child moved to and the factors that caused the change.
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