All-boys education in Ottawa is a thing of the past as Ashbury College’s junior school – Grades 4 to 8 – will begin accepting girls, completing a process to make Ashbury entirely co-ed. The senior school has been co-ed since 1982, but while the junior school had remained boys only an extra several decades, the single-sex education just wasn’t bringing people to Ashbury.
This is an interesting contrast to other flourishing all-boys schools elsewhere, such as Upper Canada College and St. Michael’s College School in Toronto.
There are, of course, all types of schools, including girls, boys and coed options, but the move by Ashbury might signal a trend away from single sex education. Nonetheless, the popularity of many all-boys or all-girls schools holds strong, and a complete demise of single sex education is certainly not on the horizon.
[...] and independent single sex schools for a long time (although the last all-boys school in Ottawa just went co-ed), and many parents feel that an all-boys setting is just what their sons [...]