Cmacki, I truly do not understand your antipathy towards single-sex schools. I have a teenage daughter who goes to a single sex school. It's been well documented that girls thrive in such establishments which is one of the major reasons I chose it. What's so bad about them? Taper, the Peckham Academy was a crap school before Harris took over. I hugely admired the new headmaster (now gone) and did look at the school, but rightly or wrongly, was put off by the gobbets of spit all over the place, plus the above reasons.