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Girls' High School is a defunct secondary school that was located at various times in the Downtown Boston, South End and Roxbury sections of Boston, Massachusetts. The first public high school for young women in the United States, [1] it was founded in 1852 as the Normal School for girls to be trained as primary school teachers. It was ...
In the 2022–23 school year, Winsor educated 471 girls, 203 of whom were in the Lower School (grades 5-8, or in school jargon, Classes I-IV) and 268 of whom were in the Upper School (grades 9-12, or Classes V-VIII). The school enrolled 63 seniors that year. [34] Winsor states that 50% of its students identify as people of color. [21]
Christian Brothers School (New Orleans) girls' middle school - The school has a PK-4 coeducational elementary school in both locations, an all girls' 5-7 middle school in the Canal Street Campus, and an all boys' 5-7 middle school in the City Park Campus. [2] Became coeducational: Eleanor McMain Secondary School (New Orleans)
Boston Latin Academy (BLA) is a public exam school founded in 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts providing students in grades 7th through 12th a classical preparatory education. Originally named Girls' Latin School , it became the first college preparatory high school for girls in the United States. [ 4 ]
BPS is the oldest public school system in America, founded in 1647. [13] It is also the home of the nation's first public school, Boston Latin School, founded in 1635. [13] The Mather School opened in 1639 as the nation's first public elementary school, [14] and English High School, the second public high school in the country, opened in 1821. [13]
The Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1789-z860 (Oxford UP, 1973) online; Smith, Wilson. "The Teacher in Puritan Culture," Harvard Educational Review 36 (Fall 1966): 394-411. Vinovskis, Maris. The origins of public high schools: A reexamination of the Beverly High School controversy (U of Wisconsin Press, 1985) online. Vinovskis, Maris A.
In a Boston School Committee vote July 27, 1953, the Dorchester High School for Girls was ordered closed. The stated reasons for closure were the School Committee's desire for a co-educational school, integrating trade courses for girls, and student enrollment being under capacity.
English, like Boston Latin School, only admitted boys when established—although a separate high school for girls was established in Boston by Emerson three years later in 1824. Boston English ended its policy of single sex education and admitted girls to become coeducational in 1972, 151 years after its founding.