Girls school vs. mixed? Which would you choose?

I went to both. Was very unhappy at mixed school so parents moved me to girls school. Much happier there, we were able to grow up more slowly plus the focus was really on school work, sports etc rather than on boys. by the time of 6th form there were events dances etc arranged with boys schools & most people had a boyfriend but better then that at 14.

I would definitely send girls to single sex school because, as well as my own experience, they statistically get better results than at mixed schools. Boys on other hand, benefit academically from girls being around.

Single sex - they learn in different ways & school is for education, time enough for socialising going to & from school and at weekends/evenings.

Focus' the mind a bit I think but that's just me with 2 DD's who are perfectly happy socialising with anyone of either sex but fo well at school too.

Single sex

I think it depends on the child. I went to a girls' school - I was very shy, hated being a teenager with braces, spots, etc. and if I'd had boys in my class, I think I'd have found it even harder. Mixed at 6th form might have been a good idea, but I soon adjusted at university and actually had more male friends there than female.

I went to an all girls school and I'd say if the mixed schools are good in your area send her there.

I really didn't enjoy the single sex environment and there was a lot of insidious bullying - this was at a supposedly excellent girls' grammar school too.
I've also taught in single sex and mixed schools at secondary where I found if they were good schools there wasn't much difference in behaviour between the boys and the girls.
I ruled out an excellent primary school for DD on the basis it was single sex but now they're taking boys I'll reconsider.

Having been to an all girls, I would send my children to single sex schools if I could. There aren't any round here though...

My single sex school was opposite the boys grammar and we interacted at the bus stop! I felt the learning was better without worrying about boys, although three boys came over to our school for one of my A level subjects which nut have been daunting for them!

According to those same studies, it's not - boys allegedly do better in mixed schools, girls do better in single sex. There's no real solution although I quite liked the schools (can't remember which ones, sorry) that were both - they were mixed but had single sex lessons for certain subjects (maths and sciences iirc)

This is a real situation for us, DD loved an All Girls school we saw the other day (not suitable in other respects, though).

I would choose Mixed, I don't like idea of DD being socially isolated from any main element of society. She has three brothers at home, but it's not the same as peer mixing.
DD herself would choose all girls, I reckon, and I would let her make that choice if truly every other factor were identical.

Why is single sex for boys supposed to be so great? I would have thought it would lead to too much boyness, bad especially for boys who are calmer & softer. DD is a show-off feisty girl, by the way, I already send her to Guides to give her one all-girl environment. That's 1.5 hours/week,though, not 30+ hours.

I would probably choose single sex simply because her brothers ended up at a single sex school. DSs school is now co-ed in the 6th form which is good I think.

I went to a mixed school and it was fine. Part of me thinks that maybe single sex schools mean that they get to have the teaching that seems to work for each sex rather than on-size-fits-all. Provided there is good socialising with both sexes outside of school.

However, the schools round her are (generally) not equal with the single sex schools tending to be the better performing ones.

I think it depends on the quality of schools and your DDs personality tbh. I remember reading all the sociological studies showing that girls do better in single sex settings (something about boys taking a disproportionate amount of teaching time even when teachers actively try to be fair and equal) but a good mixed school will always be better than a poor single sex school and those studies are all old anyway

Given the choice of schools around here I'd prefer my DD to go to the mixed school her brothers go to, but my second and third choices would be single sex.

Single sex

I went to one
both my boys go to one
I will send my dughter to one

Having been educated in a girls school I would say mixed, for the social aspects, boys were a mystery to me and I had no experience of interacting with them until university!