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Our DD passed her eleven plus but missed out on her first choice on offer day due to distance . She had attended an induction at our nearest all girls comp which has good results and a good reputation locally. However I have just been notified that a space has come up at her original first choice which is a mixed sex grammar . I’m really torn. DD is generally quite academic but I have talked us both round to the benefits and safety of SIngle sex. I have never heard anything negative about the grammar most parents are pretty happy but reading the latest Ofsted report into behaviour of boys in schools and threads on here have made me really worried. Plus the behaviour of some boys in her Y6 class. The grammar offers more languages which she loves and clubs and is an easy bus ride and short walk but I feel very anxious at accepting the place and her going to a mixed sex school after everything I have read. She is quite a “girly” girl and petite and young for her age (August baby) the thought of mixed suddenly seems very scary even though I think academically it is probably a better fit. Any thoughts ?