Diamond school
Diamond school is a term that applies to a type of independent school in the UK that combines both single-sex and coeducational teaching in the same organisation. Typically, boys and girls are taught together until the age of 11, separately from 11-16, before coming back together again in a joint sixth form.
Diamond schools are often the product of the merger of a boys' and a girls' school, thus it is possible that at KS3 and KS4 girls and boys can be taught separately on different sites. It is a common feature that boys and girls combine outside the classroom in activities for academic trips and visits and in some co-curricular activities, such as choirs, orchestras and the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme.
Diamond schools in the UK independent sector include:
- Berkhamsted School[1]
- Brentwood School
- Clifton High School, Bristol
- Dame Allan's School, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
- Forest School, Walthamstow, London[2]
- King's School, Macclesfield
- The Grammar School at Leeds
- New Hall School, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex[3]
- Stamford Endowed Schools (Stamford School, Stamford High School), Stamford, Lincolnshire
- The Stephen Perse Foundation, Cambridge
- Teesside High School
- The Royal School, Haslemere