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{{trope}}
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A school that only admits male or female students. Very much a [[Truth in Television]]: Many (but not all) schools run by religious organizations are single-sex. At least, once the students are old enough for messing around to
Single-sex colleges exist as well. Colleges for (usually) women only called Normal Schools go back to the 1600s,from the original École Normale founded by Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in 1685, usually for the purpose of instructing graduates of the mainline (up through High School by current standards) in order to become teachers. These schools still exist, however they are generally gender integrated now and were more commonly called Teacher's Colleges by the mid-20th century (most have now expanded their undergraduate degree offerings to become community colleges if not full-fledged universities or campuses of a larger university). Male-only also used to be the default for universities, and will still crop up in most period pieces. They don't really exist anymore (leaving aside R.C. seminaries, Rabbinical colleges, etc. there are six men's colleges in the US), and women's colleges are a dying breed as well (about 60 in the U.S.), so it's usually not [[Truth in Television]] past high school.
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See also [[One-Gender Race]], whose schools are this by definition.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** ''[[Gokujou Drops]]''
** ''[[Hanjuku Joshi]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry
** ''[[The Last Uniform]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Oniisama
** ''[[Otome Kikan Gretel]]''
** ''[[The Rows of Cherry Trees]]''
** ''[[Saki (
** ''[[Shiroi Heya no Futari]]''
** ''[[
** ''[[Strawberry Panic
* A notable exception, perhaps, is ''[[Sasameki Koto]]'', which is set in a mixed-gender school and actually addresses the problems faced by adolescent lesbians in modern (Japanese) society.
* ''[[
* ''[[Otome wa Boku
* The main characters of ''Sukisho'' go to an all-boys boarding school.
* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Ayame, Shigure and Hatori all went to a single sex school.
** Kagura and Isuzu attended the same all girls high school. Kisa's middle school appears to be all girls as well. Hiro might attend an all boys private academy. His uniform is very similar to the high school one Ayame, Shigure, and Hatori wore. It's implied that both sets of male and female private schools are just [[Distaff Counterpart
** Yuki also mentions that the head of the family, Akito, heavily pressured him to attend an all-boys school (he refused). This all is justified in that the aforementioned characters were all cursed to transform into animals if they hugged people of the opposite gender, so a school with all students that are the same gender is safest.
* In ''[[Nana]]'', Nana K. went to an all girls' high school.
* Ranma and Ryouga were mentioned to have gone to an all boy's school in ''[[Ranma
* Mahora Academy from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is otherwise your standard [[Elaborate University High]] [[Elevator School]] city, except that it appears to be divided to boys and girls' schools for every grade. Also, it's secretly filled with mages and miscellaneous other abnormals.
* ''[[Princess Princess]]'' takes place at an all males' school.
* The all male school in ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]''.
* The school in ''[[Kaichou wa Maid
* ''[[
* ''[[Hana Kimi]]'' combines this with a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]
* ''[[High School Girls]]''
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* The eponymous ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' may be set in one
* ''[[Maria Holic]]''
* ''[[
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Rei attends a Catholic girls' school, which is the focus of two episodes.
* Shinryuuji Academy of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' is an all-boys school, much to the chagrin of the students.
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* Kanenone Gakuen in ''[[Green Green]]'' before the girls arrive to make it a co-ed school.
* The male protagonist of ''[[Ai Ore Love Me]]'' attends an all-boys school and the female protagonist attends an all-girls school.
* One story arc of ''[[
* The Principal and the Vice-Principal in ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs]]'' hated men to the point of refusing to hire males as teachers and trying to turn their school into an all-girls one.
* ''[[
* In the [[Distant Finale]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* ''[[Bodacious Space Pirates]]'' is set (partially) in an all-girls school. However, it averts many related tropes as the other major setting is the ''Bentenmaru'', a pirate ship with a mixed-gender crew.
* Weston Academy in ''[[Black Butler]]'' only admits boys. We are talking about an English public school in the Victorian era, so there is nothing strange about that, though there is plenty of [[Ho Yay|yaoi subtext]]. That also is [[Truth in Television]].
== Comic Books ==
* Subverted in the first volume of ''[[Finder]]'': It looks like an all-girls school, but that's just because all members of house Llaverac look like females.
** The Medawar clan plays this trope straight, though. Although not stated explicitly, this is probably because Medawar girls are expected to go into medicine and Medawar boys into law enforcement or the military. This is a very big deal for the clan- Medawars have to go into these professions if they want to even have a chance at full clan status- and it is established that the girls at least start medical training quite young, so the boys' and girls' schools probably have different curricula with this in mind.
* Greytowers in ''[[Winker Watson]]'' as well as their rival school, St. Cuthbert's, are both all-boys. Greytowers' [[
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* ''Au Revoir, les Enfants''
* ''Flirting''
* In the [[Harry Potter (
* ''[[The Hairy Bird]]''
* ''[[
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* The ''[[Gemma Doyle]]'' series is set in an all-girls' school.
* ''[[The Chocolate War]]'' takes place in a Catholic all-boys' school.
* Lowood Academy in ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' is an all-girl boarding school, and Aunt Reed chooses it for Jane based on how strict the curriculum is - and she did not choose amiss. Fortunately it's headed at least by a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].
* [[The Gallagher Girls|Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women]]
* The boys from ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' come from one, although obviously the book doesn't take place there. This was because the author believed that having girls on the island would facilitate civilisation, something that would be adverse to the story's symbolic meaning.
* Rugby in ''[[Tom
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* Eastland in ''[[The Facts of Life]]'' was an all-girls school, and occasionally had mixers with a nearby all-boys school. In the [[Grand Finale]], Blair purchases Eastland and plans to make it co-ed.
* ''The WB Presents a [[Product Placement|Coca-Cola]] Summer Premiere: Young Americans'' took place in an all-boys school.
* On ''[[Friends]]'' the fact that Chandler went to an all-boys high school is brought up a few times.
* The original plot in the short-lived FOX dramedy ''Opposite Sex'' is the fact that three boys are somehow enrolled into an otherwise all-girls' private school.
** The "somehow" being that it was a formerly all-girls school whose board decided to go co-ed, but only those three boys' parents signed them up.
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** One episode had Zoey herself [[Heroic Sacrifice|taking the fall]] for a mishap committed by a few girls that [[Disproportionate Retribution|nearly led ALL girls to be expelled]]. {{spoiler|Her expulsion is subsequently revoked when the students riot at the end.}}
* Dalton Academy, home school of the Warblers, a rival of ''[[Glee]]'''s New Directions {{spoiler|to where Kurt later transfers.}}
** Jane Adams Academy and Dalton's sister school Crawford Country Day are both girls-only.
* On ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' the girls went to all girls school Constance Billard and the boys went to all boys school St. Jude's. Though since the two schools shared a courtyard you never really noticed that it was two different schools.
* On ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
== Video Games ==
* Fighting game example: the ''[[
* The school in ''Skool Daze'' on the [[ZX Spectrum]] is boys-only. The sequel introduces an adjacent girls' school.
== Visual Novels ==
* It's briefly mentioned that Shion attends one in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** She actually escaped from one one year before the main story, and whenever she's not in Hinamizawa's school she's presumably in one. One of the manga arcs actually center around her previous school.
** Ange Ushiromiya also attends [[Epileptic Trees|the same]] one in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* More [[Girls Love]] examples:
** ''[[Aoi Shiro]]''
** ''[[Shojokyuu ~Kurige
** ''[[Sono Hanabira
* The ''Infinity'' series has the Kyumeikan Women's High School and University, attended by You<ref>It's a nickname, not a pronoun</ref> and Sara (from ''[[Ever 17]]'') as well as Kokoro (from ''[[Remember 11]]'')
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[As Told
* ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Ghoul School'' took place at an all-female school (except for Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy, who were the athletic directors), with an all-male military academy nearby.
* There is a school in one of the episodes of [[Codename: Kids Next Door]] which is this, or at least it first appears to be. Until it was revealed that the reason for this was forced [[Gender Bender]] via transformation ray, and the person running said school was after [[Take Over the World|world domination]].
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** In Lisa's defense, the school should have been officially ready for this decades ago. They simply didn't expect it would ever happen.
** One episode featured a girl named Samantha, whose father sent her to an all-girls school after he found out how close she was to Milhouse.
* [[The Real Ghostbusters]] once infiltrated an all-girls school.
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