ABSTRACT
The questionnaire used in the 'Both schools' survey contained several items which had an element of sociological significance. The female ex-pupils were strongly of the opinion that their girls' schools 'tried to dominate their whole life' more than their co-educational schools did, whether they were at the schools as junior pupils or as seniors. A large majority of female ex-pupils from both types of school disagreed that their schools created a gap, they were appreciably more sure that their co-educational school did not have this effect than about their girls' schools. The discovery that these ex-pupils, both men and women, consider that their co-educational schools are less likely to create a gap between pupil and home than are their single-sex schools is not necessarily produced by the type of organization found in those schools—the two are shown to be merely associated. It might be that the rather lower social class composition of the co-educational schools in itself has this effect.
