Diamond school
Diamond school, diamond model, diamond shape and diamond structure are similar terms that apply to a type of independent school in the UK that combines both single-sex and coeducational teaching in the same organisation. Typically, the establishment will be all-through, often with a nursery setting, and 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[2]
- Claires Court, Maidenhead[3]
- Clifton High School, Bristol[4]
- Dame Allan's School, Newcastle upon Tyne[5]
- Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools, Murrayfield, Edinburgh[6]
- Forest School, Walthamstow, London[7]
- King's School, Macclesfield[8]
- New Hall School, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex[9]
- Oldham Hulme Grammar School[10]
- Stamford Endowed Schools (Stamford School, Stamford High School), Stamford, Lincolnshire[11]
- The Grammar School at Leeds[12]
- The Stephen Perse Foundation, Cambridge[13]
- The Royal School, Haslemere[14]
- Westholme School, Blackburn[15]
Teesside High School adopted the diamond model in 2005 but became fully coeducational in 2015.