# Upsurge in All-Boy Private Primary Schools

The current state of affairs represents a significant trend reversal; for the past 5 years it has been common for parents to prefer a co-educational set-up on the basis of the theory that girls exert "a civilising influence" on the male counterparts.

This long-standing theory seems to hold less water amongst today's crop of English parents. The poll showed that approximately 62% of the all-boys schools had increased their intake of pupils this season, while only 39% and 42% of all-girls and co-educational schools respectively indicated an increase.

In recent years, the growing predominance of co-educational schooling became a threat to the continued existence of single-sex schools within their current format, with many resigning themselves to the **[司法書士 予備校 ランキング](https://como-live.com/judicial-scrivener-examination/)** inevitability of accepting both genders. The recent turnaround has however, deflected the threat from the preference of co-educational institutions, and have began a spell of reasonable prosperity.

The principle executive of IAPS (The Independent Association of Prep Schools), David Hanson, commented that the change in preference may maintain some part due to the fear of several parents that a state primary education may restrict their children to a seat behind a desk.

"We've a lot of parents who tell us they are worried that in a situation school, their child won't be out of a couch," he said.

Another cause of the changing trend could be the attraction of a higher percentage of male teachers within prep schools when compared to state primaries. Figures published by the General Teaching Council revealed that 28% of state primary schools in England have no male teachers. Furthermore, an Independent Schools Council study discovered that 29% of lessons were male taught in prep primaries, whilst the figure in state primaries is less than half that, at 12%.