Almost three-quarters of parents with children in single-sex schools said they would like to see those schools transition to coeducational. Photograph: iStockForty per cent of parents with children in denominational primary schools would prefer to see the ethos shift to a multidenominational one, a Department of Education survey of 200,000 households published on Monday evening found. Sixty per cent said they wanted the school’s ethos to remain unchanged. Currently 88.3 per cent of primary schools across the State have a Catholic ethos. Almost three-quarters of parents with children in single-sex schools (73 per cent) said they would like to see those schools transition to coeducational.

Source: The Irish Times April 07, 2026 01:11 UTC