Boy to girl ratio in highest maths

[Anonymous]

Just curious…do your kids see a high girl to boy ratio in their math classes? I was surprised to hear from my son that he is one of 3 boys in a 30 person Honors math course (highest track the school offers for grade). I knew girls were “catching up” in STEM but they are apparently leaving the boys in the dust at my kid’s school. You have to be on this track to get to AP Calculus.

Is this occurring at your school? My son says the other boys found this track too hard last year and dropped down (grumpily says, because he misses his friends!)

I’m just curious, as a former “only girl in Calc” it is nice to see that isn’t the case any more.

[Anonymous]

No, there are still more boys than girls on the highest math track at our private.

- former "only girl in the entire computer science major"

[Anonymous]

All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

[Anonymous]

DD is in the highest math track. Last year’s class was 7 boys and 4 girls at the start, but one boy dropped out. (For context, the grade is 116 kids with 60 of them girls.)

[Anonymous]

My DD is at a coed school. Girls are the majority in all of her AP/honors/advanced track classes and have been since 6th grade.

In her private k-8, we were told that it was because HS admissions in our area (not dmv) were far more competitive for qualified girls than for boys. This was quite true. Boys were easily admitted with regular grades and courses, while girls on the advanced math track and straight As were basically in a lottery with one another for spaces at top coed schools in our (again, not dmv) area.

For college, my friends who are parents of boys are reporting that their boys are coasting in HS and still getting really good college admissions results. Maybe they are actually taking intense schedules on the sly and have 1580s. But I think there is some truth in these anecdotes and boys know that they don’t have to grind as hard to chase competitive admissions in the current environment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

Yes, but at single sex schools, all of the students in the highest classes are the same gender. There is a point being made.

[Anonymous]

My son’s highest math class at a private was almost all boys a couple years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

Yes, but at single sex schools, all of the students in the highest classes are the same gender. There is a point being made.

Not a useful one for this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

Yes, but at single sex schools, all of the students in the highest classes are the same gender. There is a point being made.

Not a useful one for this thread.

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Not a useful one for ANY thread.

[Anonymous]

DD's class has more girls than boys, but the most advanced math track has more boys than girls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

Yes, but at single sex schools, all of the students in the highest classes are the same gender. There is a point being made.

Not a useful one for this thread.

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Not a useful one for ANY thread.

Says someone who has not seen firsthand the value of a single sex education for girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

Yes, but at single sex schools, all of the students in the highest classes are the same gender. There is a point being made.

Not a useful one for this thread.

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Not a useful one for ANY thread.

Says someone who has not seen firsthand the value of a single sex education for girls.

The value is irrelevant. No matter how you slice it, "all girls schools have all girls classes" is an inane point to make.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

Yes, but at single sex schools, all of the students in the highest classes are the same gender. There is a point being made.

Not a useful one for this thread.

+1
Not a useful one for ANY thread.

Says someone who has not seen firsthand the value of a single sex education for girls.

The value is irrelevant. No matter how you slice it, "all girls schools have all girls classes" is an inane point to make.

Especially given that OP started the whole thread with apparent surprise at how girls outnumbered boys in their child’s advanced math class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of my daughter's classes are 100% girls.

I suspect OP was directing the question to co-ed schools.

Yes, but at single sex schools, all of the students in the highest classes are the same gender. There is a point being made.

Not a useful one for this thread.

+1
Not a useful one for ANY thread.

Says someone who has not seen firsthand the value of a single sex education for girls.

The value is irrelevant. No matter how you slice it, "all girls schools have all girls classes" is an inane point to make.

Especially given that OP started the whole thread with apparent surprise at how girls outnumbered boys in their child’s advanced math class.

OP here. I was indeed surprised that in the class of 400, 26 of the 30 kids in the highest maths for the grade are female. There is no other section. I think it’s great! I was curious is this is true generally but it appears not.

I don’t care about the single sex school parent commenting, they are welcome to make that (completely obvious) point if it makes them feel better. But I don’t think it is relevant either.