ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the comparison of attainment in single-sex and co-educational grammar schools in the most important subject in the curriculum. The attainment of the girls in English changed as anticipated, the co-educated girls improving their position relative to the segregated girls, so that there was no difference in actual scores between the two groups. In a comparison of raw scores the co-educated girls do almost as well as their matched pairs from girls' schools, both in English language and English literature, the differences being minimal, and in view of the several handicaps of the co-educated girls, it certainly cannot be said from this evidence that the co-educated girls make worse progress than those from girls' schools in these subjects. In Tyson's enquiry (two years) the co-educational schools were slightly superior in raw scores; in King's doubtful enquiry they were slightly inferior.
