My sons go to 3rd grade and Pre-kindergarten at a Catholic elementary school, and the both love the school. All their friends, both boys and girls, also like the school a lot. Scores on standardized tests show that kids at this school significantly outperform students at public schools. This is true for both boys and girls, but boys seem to be benefitting the most. For example last year, the champion reader in each grade, as determined by objective tests, was a boy. Even though reading is presumed to be the girl's strong subject, and girls are believed to mature faster in the early grades, every reading champ from kindergarten to 8th grade was a boy. Of course the boys excelled in math and science as well.
Here's the problem: Boys enjoy going to the school, and do well at the school, so you would expect that parents of boys, as well as girls, would want to send their kids there. Yet, for some reason, a significant majority of each grade is girls. In my older son's grade (3rd) girls are nearly two thirds of the third grade. I am puzzled as to why parents seem to be much more eager to send daughters than sons to Catholic School.
Does anybody else here have kids in a Catholic school? Is it normal for these schools to be mostly girls, or is just our school ? If it is common for Catholic schools to be mostly girls, why is that?