Co-Ed vs Single Sex: What is best for your child?
Co-Ed vs Single Sex: What is best for your child?
When investing in a product of any value, consumers look at how it meets their needs specifically. So why not do the same for your daughter? An all-girls’ education is designed to do just that; specialise in meeting the needs of girls. Single sex girls’ schools are proven to unleash individual potential, supporting and preparing girls for their brightest futures as confident and driven young women. Academically, socially and emotionally, girls educated at all-girls’ schools are simply excelling over their counterparts in co-educational schools.
Academics
The Girls’ School Association (GSA) reports that in general, all-girls’ schools enjoy 20% higher attainment, than girls in co-ed schools. The gap between girls in girls’ schools and girls in co-ed schools continues to widen for most subjects, highlighting their specialism in academically empowering their pupils, without compromise or agenda. At Notre Dame School, we have been placed in the top 14% of schools nationally for our ‘value added’ (attainment) at GCSE according to the data from the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring, and at A-Level Notre Dame is in the top 12% of Sixth Form centres nationally (both single-sex and co-ed).
Additionally, girls in girls’ schools are more likely to take what are perceived as more male orientated subjects, and especially STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects. They are more than twice as likely to take further maths, physics and computer science A-levels. The uptake in other sciences is also higher: biology – 43% higher, chemistry – 85% higher and maths – 87% higher. Indeed, they are more than 4 times as likely to apply to study Maths, twice as likely to apply to study physical and biological science, and 40% more likely to apply to study engineering at university.
Sport
Following the Lionesses’ back-to-back victories at the Euros this summer, women’s sport is reaching unprecedented heights. Fuelled by ambition, all- girls’ schools buck the trend for girls’ participation in sports, with girls participating in 25% more PE in their curriculum, in comparison to girls nationally. This is particularly so in male-dominated sports, where girls at all girls’ schools report fewer barriers to entry. Girls in girls’ schools are 5 times more likely to play cricket and 30% more likely to play football compared to girls in co-ed schools. Nationally, there is a 65% decline in the time girls spend playing sport around the age of puberty. However, for girls in girls’ schools this drop is far lower, at 25%, paving the way for future success in women’s sport.
Emotional Intelligence
Research has also proven that girls in girls’ schools are more confident, rounded young women who enjoy more emotional control in comparison to girls in mixed schools. Findings also highlight that they generally possess higher mental resilience than those in other schools, enabling them to banish stereotypes and gender poverty. Put simply, girls in all girls’ schools believe in themselves with confidence and without inhibition. These girls are happily trailblazing their way to brighter, more equal futures, guided by experts in girls’ education.
Notre Dame School accompanies each individual in their own learning journey from Nursery to University, providing a unique education and environment for girls to flourish. We enable learning without limits and we believe that all ambitions are valid, encouraging each and every student to be the agents of their own future. Our 400 years of experience makes us specialists in providing an inspiring and empowering learning environment with a single, uncompromised focus: Girls!
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