More single-sex Sydney schools are becoming co-educational, with boys’ college De La Salle in Ashfield set to merge with an adjacent girls’ school, Bethlehem College.
Sydney has an unusually high number of boys and girls-only schools, particularly in its public system, where there are 34 single-sex catchments. Many of the city’s sandstone private schools are also single-sex, particularly in the eastern and inner western suburbs and on the north shore. This would be the fourth new co-educational school created by Sydney Catholic Schools in the past decade. However, it would be the first merger, with the other three - including Marist Penshurst and Champangat in Pagewood - having been all-boys’ schools that opened their gates to girls.
At Marist North Sydney, the transition involved giving staff gender bias training and modifying facilities. ′ into a co-ed school while keeping Randwick Girls single-sex, but the idea was rejected by the NSW Department of Education.
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JordsBaker I went through Co-Ed schools, fantastic schooling, boys & girls got used to each other very early, many married & happy couples now.
JordsBaker Not sure why the Catholic church and especially Marist 'Brothers' are considered fit to manage anything to do with children, let alone receive taxpayer subsidies for schools
JordsBaker Looking forward to the demise of single sex schools