Exclusive: NSW students promised access to co-ed high schools under Labor plan | lucy_carroll
All students in NSW will have guaranteed access to a co-educational public high school if Labor wins the March election under a plan to give thousands of parents in single-sex catchments more options as demand for co-ed surges.
Some families have warned scarce co-ed options have forced them to move suburbs or abandon the public system entirely. Families zoned for single-sex schools can make an out-of-area application to a co-ed high school, but they can be knocked back if a school is over-capacity, and may not discover the outcome of their application until the eleventh hour.
South Coogee resident Kate Mulheron, a mother to two primary school-aged boys, said there was an urgent need for a public co-educational, comprehensive high school in her area. “We will look at getting into South Sydney High School. Or look to somewhere entirely different. Most of our friends have resigned themselves to the fact their children will probably go to a private school,” Burns said.
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