Boys in Sixth Form at a girls only secondary

[Leeloo13]

Hi all....I am looking at Sixth Forms for my son...and most schools in our area, and good ones and where my son could do Music for A levels ..are girls only...like Camden school for girls, St Marylebone, Grey Coat Hospital....
My question is...well I don't know how to put it....is it ok, as a boy in such schools? Are there a good number of boys ? Any idea on general, a boy in a Sixth Form of a girls only school....
We consider other schools too like Harris Westminster, Paddington academy....
Any ...advice on this matter...
Thank you

My daughter is in sixth form at GCH. There aren’t many boys, but it’s a friendly sixth from with plenty of newcomers.

Have a look at Kingsdale for music for 6th form as well - they have scholarships on offer. It's an easy train journey from London Victoria to Sydenham Hill. They do want 6 x 7-9 grades at GCSE.

I don't think it's uncommon for boys and girls to combine at 6th form if there aren't enough pupils for two schools. Ask the school how many boys.

Would he mind being surrounded by girls, his friends will probably be jealous.

I don't know those schools / your area, but my ds did 2 of his A levels at the Girls' school.
He was fine - enjoyed it. But it is going to be a bit dependent on personality. He was (well, is) confident, friendly, outgoing, and has never seen girls as being some sort of alien race. He has sisters and he has always done activities outside of school that were mixed.
As a pp said, he should talk to the school about typical % of boys they tend to take in. Not just his subject, but for the common room / dining room / etc.

DS joined a girls 6th form. I would say he had the absolute best time of his life. 2x A stars and 2x As. So he managed to get some work done as well.

CSG sixth form has a lot of boys. There aren’t that many girls from the lower school, as a proportion of the year. About half the year, about 60 from y11, and the sixth form has about 220. It’s a very different school from the lower school.
My DD says as a group they’re confident and monopolise the shared spaces. She’s doing girl heavy subjects and hasn’t mentioned any issues in her classes.

Not sure about those specific schools, but my DS is in year 11 and he's planning to move to a girls school which takes boys in the 6th form. The A level results are excellent and the boys I know there are really happy.

My brother did A-levels as the ONLY boys at a girls’ school sixth form and had a whale of a time, mainly because he was practically having to fend off female attention with a stick. I was at the same school in Y8 at the time and regularly had to endure hearing the other girls going on about ‘that boy in Y12’ being hot.

My son is in a girls’ school sixth form. In year 12 there’s about 30 boys and 90 girls. He’s really enjoying it and says it’s good to get away from all the boy one-upmanship that went on in his mixed secondary. The other advantage is that his physics and computer science class sizes are very small (5-6 students). There’s a few more in maths. His sister is at a mixed grammar, which is very boy top heavy. She’s always moaning about the boys!

Thank you all, we are going to Open Evening over the next couple of weeks too, but from your answer, I think he will have no problem....let's see, to get accepted now 😁