74-526: Sir Herbert Leon Academy (formerly Leon School and Sports College ) is a coeducational comprehensive secondary academy school and sixth form located in Bletchley , Milton Keynes , England . It is currently sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust , having become an academy under this sponsorship. Originally founded as two separate boys and girls schools on Bletchley Road (Queensway),
148-468: A Department for Education letter which states that standards are 'unacceptably low' at the academy. Cells in darker grey indicate data for a period of time in which the academy was not part of the Academies Enterprise Trust network. In 2014 OFSTED commented on standards stating Students, particularly the most able, have not reached the standards they are capable of, particularly in mathematics... Students’ GCSE examination results have not been good in
222-505: A class with boys, but other research suggests that when the previous attainment is taken into account, that difference falls away. According to advocates of coeducation, without classmates of the opposite sex, students have social issues that may impact adolescent development. They argue that the absence of the opposite sex creates an unrealistic environment not duplicated in the real world. Some studies show that in classes that are separated by gender, male and female students work and learn on
296-401: A management board to maintain the pace of change and increase the level of challenge, so further strengthening the good quality leadership and management. However The Duston School carried out a parental ballot and chose to leave the Academies Enterprise Trust network on 1 March 2015. The Duston School originally wanted to retain its link to Sir Herbert Leon Academy but AET did not support
370-471: A mixed-sex secondary school. Its first enrollment class consisted of 78 male and 36 female students. Among the latter was Rebecca Gratz who would become an educator and philanthropist. However, the school soon began having financial problems and it reopened as an all-male institution. Westford Academy in Westford, Massachusetts has operated as mixed-sex secondary school since its founding in 1792, making it
444-540: A more important aspect of civilization. Efforts of the ancient Greek and Chinese societies focused primarily on the education of males. In ancient Rome, the availability of education was gradually extended to women, but they were taught separately from men. The early Christians and medieval Europeans continued this trend, and single-sex schools for the privileged classes prevailed through the Reformation period. The early periods of this century included many religious schools and
518-929: A need for advanced education for women at a time when they were not admitted to most institutions of higher education." Notable examples include the Seven Sisters colleges, of which Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe College has merged with Harvard University . Other notable women's colleges that have become coeducational include Wheaton College in Massachusetts, Ohio Wesleyan Female College in Ohio , Skidmore College , Wells College , and Sarah Lawrence College in New York state, Pitzer College in California, Goucher College in Maryland and Connecticut College . By 1900
592-488: A period of time without a headteacher and repeated failure to recruit teaching staff. During this time the school specialised as a sports college, becoming Leon School and Sports College. By 2001 the school had finally found a headteacher, Stephen Pam, and in the same year OFSTED inspected the school. The school's standards were reported as being "still well below average" but OFSTED praised its progress since 1996, categorising it as an "improving school". The school's sixth form
666-421: A positive impact of single-sex schooling on education achievement [...] but others finding average null effects"; they concluded that after controlling for "individual, parental and school-level factors [...] on average, there is no significant difference in performance for girls or boys who attend single-sex schools compared to their mixed-school peers in science, mathematics or reading." Year 7 Year 7
740-734: A range of skills, strageties and knowledge for their response or composition of texts; shape creativitly different meanings; find links between and among texts; show understanding of how texts showcase aspects of the world; identify and consider cultural expressions in texts; and assess and reflect on their skills they use for learning. In New Zealand, Year 7 is the seventh year of compulsory education. Children entering Year 7 are generally aged between 10½ and 12. Year 7 pupils are educated in full primary schools , intermediate schools , and in some areas area schools or combined intermediate and secondary schools. In schools in England and Wales , Year 7
814-559: A range of subjects, including science, humanities, and design and technology. Commenting after the 2014 exam results, Martin Post, the DfE School's Commissioner said the Secretary of State considers that the standards of performance at Sir Herbert Leon Academy are unacceptably low and likely to remain so... The results are significantly lower than the national averages. They are also lower than
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#1733105682702888-399: A single-sex setting could be less prepared, nervous, or uneasy. However, some argue that at certain ages, students may be more distracted by the opposite sex in a coeducational setting, but others point to this being based on an assumption that all students are heterosexual. There is evidence that girls may perform less well in traditionally male-dominated subjects such as the sciences when in
962-561: A third are ethnic minorities , 30.5% speak English non-natively, 50.4% are boys and 49.6% are girls. Overall, there are 538 students on roll (as of December 2021). The school is located in the Lakes Estate , which, according to the multiple deprivation index , was one of the "top 10 most deprived areas in England for crime, income and health deprivation" in 2015. Alongside the Lakes Estate, it
1036-805: A trend towards increased coeducational schooling with new coeducational schools opening, few new single-sex schools opening and existing single-sex schools combining or opening their doors to the opposite gender. The first mixed-sex institution of higher learning in China was the Nanjing Higher Normal Institute , which was renamed National Central University and Nanjing University . For millennia in China, public schools, especially public higher learning schools, were for men. Generally, only schools established by zōng zú (宗族, gens) were for both male and female students. Some schools, such as Li Zhi 's school during
1110-525: A worsening of standards from the previous year. The Academy also recognised that those exam results were not good enough as it includes the need to improve in its key values statement which reads as follows At Sir Herbert Leon Academy we are continuously seeking improvement. We focus on excellence... In 2014 Sir Herbert Leon Academy began offering A levels for the first time. OFSTED stated about sixth form standards The sixth form requires improvement because not enough students make good progress in all
1184-609: Is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England , Wales , Australia and New Zealand . It is the seventh full year (or eighth in Australia and England) of compulsory education and is roughly equivalent to grade 6 in the United States and Canada (or to grade 7 for the Australian Year 7). Children in this year are between 11 and 12. In Australia , Year 7 is the seventh year of compulsory education and
1258-617: Is often known as "Old Leon". After the new Lakes Estate was built the school relocated to its current Fern Grove site, replacing the Lakes Secondary School and being renamed to the Leon Comprehensive School . The relocated school opened its doors on March 10, 1971. It was opened by John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead . After its opening in 1971, the Leon Comprehensive was led by Headmaster David B. Bradshaw. The school
1332-468: Is one of the many Muslim countries where most schools and colleges are single-gender although some schools and colleges, and most universities are coeducational. In schools that offer O levels and A levels, co-education is quite prevalent. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, most universities were coeducational but the proportion of women was less than 5%. After the Islamization policies in
1406-518: Is still divided into 2 semesters, with each semester having 2 terms consisting of 10 weeks each. The school day follows the normal work day of 5 days. Each school day is divided into 5 periods and 2 breaks. In New South Wales, the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) lays out that Year 7 students should be able to respond and compose texts for the purpose of understanding, interpretation, analysis, expression and/or pleasure; use
1480-417: Is the main secondary school for Fenny Stratford and East and South Bletchley. In 1890 a new school was built on Bletchley Road (now known as Queensway) in order to accommodate the increasing population of Bletchley. The school's campus hosted the relocation of multiple national schools located on the town's then high street , including an infant school , girls school and boys school. Together on this site
1554-590: Is the seventh full year of compulsory education after Reception , with children being admitted who are aged 11 before 1 September in any given academic year. It is the first year group in Key Stage 3 in which the Secondary National Curriculum is taught and marks the beginning of secondary education. Year 7 follows Year 6, the last year of primary school education. Year 7 is usually the first year of secondary school . In some areas of England, Year 7
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#17331056827021628-403: Is used to refer to a mixed school. The word is also often used to describe a situation in which both sexes are integrated in any form (e.g., "The team is coed"). Less common in the 21st century is the noun use of word "coed", which traditionally referred to a female student in a mixed gender school. The noun use is considered by many to be sexist and unprofessional, the argument being that applying
1702-515: The American Revolution supplanted church institutions, were almost always coeducational, and by 1900 most public high schools were coeducational as well. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coeducation grew much more widely accepted. In Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, the education of girls and boys in the same classes became an approved practice. In Australia, there is
1776-653: The Hui and Salars , find coeducation to be controversial, owing to Islamic ideas on gender roles. On the other hand, the Muslim Uyghurs have not historically objected to coeducation. Admission to the Sorbonne was opened to girls in 1860. The baccalauréat became gender-blind in 1924, giving equal chances to all girls in applying to any universities. Mixed-sex education became mandatory for primary schools in 1957 and for all universities in 1975. St. Paul's Co-educational College
1850-599: The Ming dynasty and Yuan Mei 's school during the Qing Dynasty , enrolled both male and female students. In the 1910s, women's universities were established, such as Ginling Women's University and Peking Girls' Higher Normal School, but there was no coeducation in higher learning schools. Tao Xingzhi , the Chinese advocator of mixed-sex education, proposed The Audit Law for Women Students (規定女子旁聽法案, Guī Dìng Nǚ Zi Páng Tīng Fǎ Àn) at
1924-473: The 19th century. The world's oldest co-educational school is thought to be Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School, Croydon , established in 1714 in the United Kingdom, which admitted 10 boys and 10 girls from its opening, and remained co-educational thereafter. This is a day school only and still in existence. The Scottish Dollar Academy was the first mixed-sex both day and boarding school in
1998-584: The 2013 results and lower than results at the school that preceded the academy. Since that criticism of the 'unacceptably low standards' at Sir Herbert Leon academy; results in 2015 got worse, as the table above show. The Academy cites its own summer 2015 exam results as slightly higher than the data above, taken from the DfE statistical first release, as the Academy states that 19.6% of students gained 5GCSEs A-C (including English and Maths). However even that figure represents
2072-680: The Bible. The practice became very popular in northern England, Scotland, and colonial New England, where young children, both male and female, attended dame schools . In the late 18th century, girls gradually were admitted to town schools. The Society of Friends in England, as well as in the United States, pioneered coeducation as they did universal education, and in Quaker settlements in the British colonies, boys and girls commonly attended school together. The new free public elementary, or common schools , which after
2146-475: The Briton Frederic Harrison said after visiting the United States that "The whole educational machinery of America ... open to women must be at least twentyfold greater than with us, and it is rapidly advancing to meet that of men both in numbers and quality". Where most of the history of coeducation in this period is a list of those moving toward the accommodation of both men and women at one campus,
2220-568: The Government. Sir Herbert Leon Academy summed up results in 2015 by stating that Many students at Sir Herbert Leon Academy achieved the top GCSE grades in English and Maths. However, we know that the academy still has a great deal of work to do if we are to ensure that we make required improvements. However, as of 2022, the school has since decided to stop the sixth form after it was paused in 2021 due to low student numbers and choosing to focus more on
2294-489: The Milton Keynes South Sixth Form, in collaboration with nearby Lord Grey School . Currently the school is graded as requires improvement by OFSTED , previously being inadequate. Furthermore, it is one of the 100 schools identified by OFSTED as having dropped an OFSTED grade since becoming an academy, previously being graded as good when it was a specialist school and sports college. Of the school's students
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2368-619: The UK. Founded in 1818, it is the oldest both boarding and day mixed-sex educational institution in the world still in existence. In England, the first non-Quaker mixed-sex public boarding school was Bedales School , founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley and becoming mixed in 1898. Ruckleigh School in Solihull was founded by Cathleen Cartland in 1909 as a non-denominational co-educational preparatory school many decades before others followed. Many previously single-sex schools have begun to accept both sexes in
2442-580: The United States were single-sex. Examples include Collegiate School , a boys' school operating in New York by 1638 (which remains a single-sex institution); and Boston Latin School , founded in 1635 (which did not become coeducational until 1972). Nonetheless, mixed-sex education existed at the lower levels in the U.S. long before it extended to colleges. For example, in 1787, the predecessor to Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania , opened as
2516-616: The achievement for all pupils at Sir Herbert Leon will be improved and sustained in the longer term. Coeducational Mixed-sex education , also known as mixed-gender education , co-education , or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed ), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to the 19th century, mixed-sex education has since become standard in many cultures, particularly in western countries. Single-sex education remains prevalent in many Muslim countries. The relative merits of both systems have been
2590-461: The campus serving black students at the site of what is now Florida A&M University . Florida did not return to coeducation at UF and FSU until after World War II, prompted by the drastically increased demands placed on the higher education system by veterans studying via GI Bill programs following World War II. The Buckman arrangements officially ended with new legislation guidelines passed in 1947. Several early primary and secondary schools in
2664-475: The country. However, for quite a while, women sometimes were treated rudely by their male classmates. The prejudice of some male professors proved more unsettling. Many professors disapproved of the admission of women into their classes, citing studies that claimed that women were mentally unsuited for higher education, and because most would "just get married", they were using resources that, they believed, male students would use better. Some professors simply ignored
2738-440: The early 1980s, the government established Women's colleges and Women's universities to promote education among women who were hesitant to study in mixed-sex environment. Today, however, most universities and a large number of schools in urban areas are co-educational. In the United Kingdom the official term is mixed , and today most schools are mixed. A number of Quaker co-educational boarding schools were established before
2812-647: The first coeducational public or state university in the United States in 1855, and for much of the next century, public universities, and land grant universities in particular, would lead the way in mixed-sex higher education. There were also many private coeducational universities founded in the 19th century, especially west of the Mississippi River. East of the Mississippi, Wheaton College (Illinois) graduated its first female student in 1862. Bates College in Maine
2886-703: The first major public schools in the country had been established for males and females. In the 16th century, at the Council of Trent , the Roman Catholic church reinforced the establishment of free elementary schools for children of all classes. The concept of universal elementary education, regardless of sex, had been created. After the Reformation, coeducation was introduced in Western Europe, when certain Protestant groups urged that boys and girls should be taught to read
2960-437: The first three women to graduate with bachelor's degrees did so in 1840. By the late 20th century, many institutions of higher learning that had been exclusively for men or women had become coeducational. In early civilizations, people were typically educated informally: primarily within the household. As time progressed, education became more structured and formal. Women often had very few rights when education started to become
3034-678: The first year of secondary school (high school). Children entering are generally aged from 12-13, and leave around 17-18 years old. Students will experience more teachers, usually a teacher per subject, in contrast to the fewer number of teachers they had throughout the year in primary school. Subjects in Year 7 include English; Mathematics; Science; Creative Arts; Humanities and Social Sciences; Languages; Personal development, Health and Physical education; and technologies. Year 7s will also experience their 3rd and 2nd last NAPLAN tests in March. The school year
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3108-614: The lack of strong Christian principles among the settlers of the American West. They decided to establish a college and a colony based on their religious beliefs, "where they would train teachers and other Christian leaders for the boundless most desolate fields in the West". Oberlin College and the surrounding community were dedicated to progressive causes and social justice. Though it did reluctantly what every other college refused to do at all, it
3182-484: The meeting of Nanjing Higher Normal School held on December seventh, 1919. He also proposed that the university recruit female students. The idea was supported by the president Kuo Ping-Wen , academic director Liu Boming , and such famous professors as Lu Zhiwei and Yang Xingfo, but opposed by many famous men of the time. The meeting passed the law and decided to recruit women students next year. Nanjing Higher Normal School enrolled eight Chinese female students in 1920. In
3256-489: The oldest continuously operating coed school in America. The oldest continuously operating coed boarding school in the United States is Westtown School , founded in 1799. A minister and a missionary founded Oberlin in 1833. Rev. John Jay Shipherd (minister) and Philo P. Stewart (missionary) became friends while spending the summer of 1832 together in nearby Elyria . They discovered a mutual disenchantment with what they saw as
3330-596: The past few decades: for example, Clifton College began to accept girls in 1987. The first higher-education institution in the United Kingdom to allow women and men to enter on equal terms, and hence be admitted to academic degrees, was the University of Bristol (then established as University College, Bristol ) in 1876. Given their dual role as both boarding house and educational establishment, individual colleges at Oxford and Cambridge remained segregated for much longer. The first Oxford college to house both men and women
3404-472: The preparatory department at Oberlin in 1833 and the college department in 1837. The first four women to receive bachelor's degrees in the United States earned them at Oberlin in 1841. Later, in 1862, the first black woman to receive a bachelor's degree ( Mary Jane Patterson ) also earned it from Oberlin College. Beginning in 1844, Hillsdale College became the next college to admit mixed-sex classes to four-year degree programs. The University of Iowa became
3478-565: The proposal Martin Post, the DfE Regional School's Commissioner criticised the Sponsor, Academies Enterprise Trust because 1. The sponsor has not presented a clear enough picture of how it proposes to support the academy. 2. There is not enough clarity about the future leadership of the academy and the other partners providing support to the academy beyond the short term: 3. The academy development plan does not sufficiently focus on how
3552-539: The same level as their peers, the stereotypical mentality of the teacher is removed, and girls are likely to have more confidence in the classroom than they would in a coeducational class. In a 2022 study published in the British Educational Research Journal which examined the Irish educational system, the authors stated that the existing "empirical evidence is somewhat ambiguous, with some studies finding
3626-427: The same time,' women were considered to be the physical manifestations of the coeducation movement. While men were called students, women were called coeds. The message was that women . . . were not really students." Numerous professional organizations require that the gender-neutral term "student" be used instead of "coed" or, when gender is relevant to the context, that the term "female student" be substituted. If
3700-615: The same year Peking University also began to allow women students to audit classes. One of the most notable female students of that time was Chien-Shiung Wu . In 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded. The Chinese government pursued a policy of moving towards co-education and nearly all schools and universities have become mixed-sex. In recent years, some female or single-sex schools have again emerged for special vocational training needs, but equal rights for education still applies to all citizens. Indigenous Muslim populations in China,
3774-526: The school admitted both boys and girls of the parish of Dollar and the surrounding area. The school continues in existence to the present day with around 1,250 pupils. The first co-educational college to be founded was Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio . It opened on 3 December 1833, with 44 students, including 29 men and 15 women. Fully equal status for women did not arrive until 1837, and
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#17331056827023848-473: The school went into special measures but left in 2018, now requiring improvement. Trevenna left the school by 2020 and was replaced by Jonathan Harris, who left in 2022 and has since been replaced by Emma Orr. Salver has also left the school. Cells coloured red represent 5 GCSE A-C (including English and maths) results which are below the minimum standards expected by the Government floor target, or an OFSTED grade which indicate standards need to be improved or
3922-516: The school. An acting principal, Dan Sim, was also appointed from January 2014. Ofsted judged the school to require improvement later that year. Herriman would resign from her post as executive principal after her school ( The Duston School ) left the Academies Enterprise Trust on March 1, 2015. She was replaced by Gill Salver in April 2015 with Doctor Jo Trevenna becoming head of school. In 2016
3996-491: The schools unified as a coeducational senior school in 1937. In the 1960s it was renamed to Leon Secondary School , in honour of Sir Herbert Leon , and relocated to Fern Grove in 1971, becoming a comprehensive . The school specialised and became the Leon School and Sports College sometime between 1996 and 2001, and academized as Sir Herbert Leon Academy in 2012. Between 2011 and 2014, the school hosted one of two campuses for
4070-670: The schools were known as the Bletchley Road Schools. In 1937 the schools were reorganised into an infants school, county junior school and a coeducational county senior school. The senior school's headmaster was E. C. Cook, who retired in 1953. By the 1960s the senior school was known as the Bletchley Road Secondary Modern School and in the early 1960s it was renamed to the Leon Secondary School after Sir Herbert Leon . The school during this period
4144-612: The sexes were educated together, we should have the healthy, moral and intellectual stimulus of sex ever quickening and refining all the faculties, without the undue excitement of senses that results from novelty in the present system of isolation. For years, a question many educators, parents, and researchers have been asking is whether it is academically beneficial to teach boys and girls together or separately at school. Some argue that coeducation has primarily social benefits by allowing males and females of all ages to become more prepared for real-world situations and that students familiar with
4218-456: The state of Florida was an exception. In 1905, the Buckman Act was one of consolidation in governance and funding but separation in race and gender, with Florida State College for Women (since 1947, Florida State University ) established to serve white females during this era, the campus that became what is now the University of Florida serving white males, and coeducation stipulated only for
4292-478: The students in years 7-11 although people can still get sixth form education by going to other local providers such as Milton Keynes College , Lord Grey Academy or Walton High School . Academies Enterprise Trust support for academies at the local level is led by the AET Regional Director of Education (known as a RDE). The 2014 OFSTED report about AET explained that ‘some academy leaders said that there
4366-603: The subject of debate. The world's oldest co-educational school is thought to be Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School, Croydon , established in 1714 in the United Kingdom , which admitted boys and girls from its opening onwards. This has always been a day school only. The world's oldest co-educational both day and boarding school is Dollar Academy , a junior and senior school for males and females from ages 5 to 18 in Scotland , United Kingdom. From its opening in 1818,
4440-456: The subjects they study. They do best in work related subjects. Previously sixth form education was offered in collaboration with Lord Grey School . Titled "Milton Keynes South Sixth Form", and qualifications were taught over both school sites. The opening of the Sixth Form coincided with the period of time in which GCSE exam results at Sir Herbert Leon fell below the minimum standards expected by
4514-478: The support provided by the Sponsor when Sir Herbert Leon Academy was supported by Jane Herriman and her Outstanding Academy The Duston School , OFSTED wrote: The academy sponsor, through the appointment of the Executive Principal, has ensured that the academy has robust monitoring and the access to a wide range of additional expertise from her outstanding school... The academy sponsor plans to establish
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#17331056827024588-479: The term solely to women implies that "normal" education is exclusively male: technically both male and female students at a coeducational institution should be considered "coeds". Writing for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in 2017, author and educator Barbara Boroson described the noun use as "unfortunate", observing that "Although coeducation means 'the education of both sexes together at
4662-492: The women students. By the end of the 19th century 70% of American colleges were coeducational, although the state of Florida was a notable exception; the Buckman Act of 1905 imposed gender-separated white higher education at the University of Florida (men) and Florida State College for Women . (As there was only one state college for blacks, the future Florida A&M University , it admitted both men and women.) The white Florida campuses returned to coeducation in 1947, when
4736-478: The women's college became Florida State University and the University of Florida became coeducational. In the late 20th century, many institutions of higher learning that had been exclusively for people of one sex became coeducational. A number of Greek-letter student societies have either been established (locally or nationally) or expanded as co-ed fraternities. In American colloquial language, "coed" or "co-ed"
4810-500: Was decided that the academy school would be named "Sir Herbert Leon Academy" in order to both pay homage to the school's past and its hopeful future. The school successfully academized in September 2012. By this time the school was categorised as good by OFSTED. Upon academisation Simon Viccars retained his role as headteacher, now as the principal. He died in 2013. After his death a new executive principal , Jane Herriman, began overseeing
4884-439: Was graded as "satisfactory", with students "achieving well". At this time the school served 12-19 year olds, with year 7 being excluded from education. In 2004 Grays School Deputy Head Simon Viccars joined Leon, replacing Stephen Pam as headteacher. In 2007 the school was graded with a 4 by OFSTED, making the school inadequate. Leon partnered with Lord Grey School in 2011 to create the new Milton Keynes South Sixth Form and it
4958-473: Was graded as good by Ofsted in June of that year. In 2012 Headteacher Viccars led the school's academisation process under the sponsorship of the Academies Enterprise Trust. As part of the process the school launched a new house system , changed its uniform to black blazers and requested ideas for a new name. One of the names offered and discussed by the school's governing body was " Hogwarts Academy". Eventually it
5032-425: Was open to women from its founding in 1855, and graduated its first female student in 1869. Cornell University and the University of Michigan each admitted their first female students in 1870. Around the same time, single-sex women's colleges were also appearing. According to Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra: " women's colleges were founded during the mid- and late-19th century in response to
5106-413: Was segmented between a lower school and upper school . By the 1980s the school had a sixth form and Bradshaw was no longer head, being succeeded by Bruce Henry Abbott. The sixth form would be shared between a variety of local schools including Leon, due to its unsustainability. Between 1996 and 2001 the school experienced a variety of challenges including temporary closure caused by asbestos removal,
5180-575: Was the first college to admit both women and African Americans as students. Women were not admitted to the baccalaureate program, which granted bachelor's degrees, until 1837; prior to that, they received diplomas from what was called the Ladies' Course. The initial 1837 students were Caroline Mary Rudd, Elizabeth Prall, Mary Hosford, and Mary Fletcher Kellogg. The early success and achievement of women at Oberlin College persuaded many early women's rights leaders that coeducation would soon be accepted throughout
5254-1023: Was the first mixed-sex secondary school in Hong Kong . It was founded in 1915 as St. Paul's Girls' College. At the end of World War II , it was temporarily merged with St. Paul's College , which is a boys' school. When classes at the campus of St. Paul's College were resumed, it continued to be mixed and changed to its present name. Some other renowned mixed-sex secondary schools in town include Hong Kong Pui Ching Middle School, Queen Elizabeth School , and Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School . Most Hong Kong primary and secondary schools are mixed-sex, including government public schools, charter schools, and private schools. Mongolia's first co-educational school, named Third School, opened in Ulaanbaatar on November 2, 1921. Subsequent schools have been co-educational and there are no longer any single-sex schools in Mongolia. Pakistan
5328-442: Was the graduate-only Nuffield College in 1937; the first five undergraduate colleges ( Brasenose , Hertford , Jesus , St Catherine's , and Wadham ) became mixed in 1974. The first mixed Cambridge college was the graduate-only Darwin from its foundation in 1964. Churchill , Clare , and King's Colleges were the first previously all-male colleges of the University of Cambridge to admit female undergraduates in 1972. Magdalene
5402-488: Was the last all-male college to become mixed in 1988. The last women's college in Oxford, St Hilda's , became mixed as of Michaelmas term 2008. Two colleges remain single-sex (women-only) at Cambridge: Murray Edwards (New Hall) and Newnham . The oldest extant mixed-sex institute of higher education in the United States is Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio , which was established in 1833. Mixed-sex classes were admitted to
5476-599: Was too much variability in the support and challenge offered by Regional Directors employed by AET.'. Since 2013 the AET Regional Director of Education at Sir Herbert Leon Academy has been Richard Bassett. He was also a member of the Management Board in 2014 and 2015, which replaced the previous Governing Body. Since 2014, the Chair of the Management board raising standards at Sir Leon Academy has been Louise Soden. Commenting on
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