Figure 1.--Here we see a class at a New Zealand boys' secondary school. I'm not sure about the date, but we would guess the 1960s. New Zealand at the time was shifting to coeducation, but many New Zealand towns had single-gender schools. |
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New Zealand primary schools are mostly coeducational, except for a few private schools. Primary schools we believe were always coeducational. This was certainly true in rural areas where because of the size of the schools, coeducation was the only practical alternative. I'm not positive, but I believe that even in the towns and cities the state primary schools were coeducational. This probably was not the case for the private schools. The situation for secondary education was different. Secondary education until after World War II was much less commo than it was today. Most early secondary schools were founded as single-gendr schools. Since World War II many schools have shifted to coeducation and almost all of the new schools opened have been coeducational schools. Private schools have been slower to shift, but many of them are also now coeducational.
Related Chronolgy Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[Main Chronology Page]
[The 1900s]
[The 1910s]
[The 1920s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
[The 1990s]
[The 2000s]
