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* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': While Knightcharm is co-ed, and while the Scholomance ''used'' to be co-ed too (back when Main/{{Dracula}} was a student there), the new version turns out to be for girls only. The Scholomance elites claim this was to reduce 'distractions' and that there's another dark magic school that's just for boys, but they make it clear that there's no way for the girls of the Scholomance to get to the other school (if it really exists).

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* ''Anime/MariaHolic'' takes place at Ame no Kisaki Girls' School, and the series frequently parodies works in the YuriGenre that are set in similar schools. Later, it's revealed that Mariya's twin sister Shizu attends an all-boys' school while [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as a boy]].

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** Pictured above: TropeCodifier ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' takes place in Lillian Girls' Academy, an all-girls Catholic school. The all male Hanadera Academy is also mentioned and interactions between the two become a major plot point in the third season of the anime. The original light novels had a spinoff series set in Hanadera.

* ''Manga/HighSchoolGirls''

* ''Manga/HereIsGreenwood''

** ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' (which has ''three'' schools, although they share the same campus)

* The main characters of ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}'' go to an all-boys boarding school.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', Karen Kohiruimaki, the main character, attends a women's college. Unfortunately, since it's an elevator school and Karen didn't go to the associated high school, she has trouble making friends.
* In ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'', while the protagonists' middle school is coed, there's an all-girls high school [[spoiler:that's the site of the White Legion's headquarters]].

* ''LightNovel/ShominSample'' takes place in a hidden all-female school where young ladies of good families are taught everything a high-class lady needs to know. Unfortunately, the extreme isolation from the modern world means that none of them know how to deal with it when their schooling ends, so the school owners decide to enroll a male commoner there to help ease them up the cultural shock. For some reason, their best idea is to abduct the first gay teenager they can find and threaten to castrate him if he is actually not gay (all to preserve the girls' purity).

* ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'': Casterbrook's, the WizardingSchool attached to the Folly in Nightingale's day, was male only, because the second incarnation of the Folly was MagicalSociety as SmokyGentlemansClub.

* ''Anime/MariaHolic''

* ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'' and ''Manga/TheHeartOfThomas'' are set in these.

* Cackle Academy in ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'' only teaches girls. The later books introduce an equivalent boys' school, Moonridge High.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' is set in Luna Nova, a [[WizardingSchool school for witches]] and only witches. Appleton Academy, an all boys school for non magical men patterned after Eton, also appears in [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 the 2017 series]]. Both of them are private boarding schools.

* ''VideoGame/TheSandMan'': Our heroine Sophia attends Loren Catholic Private High School, an all-girls academy. At one point, she uses this to justify [[LetsSplitUpGang leaving David behind]]. Nevermind the creepy circumstances; that'd be breaking the ''rules!''

* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' mainly takes place at a co-ed high school, but Kashima's younger sister Rei goes to an all-girls' school (which has [[ElevatorSchool both elementary and middle school divisions]]) for her whole life. As a result, Rei has had little experience with boys and assumes that students at co-ed schools only ever think about romance, which leads her to view every boy-girl interaction as romantic.

* In [[Recap/AmericanDadS15E19TopOfTheSteve "Top of the Steve"]] from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Steve (with Roger in tow) runs away to a boarding school called Pendlingtonton Academy after getting fed up with Stan's attitude. But right after arriving at the school, PA's revealed to be an all-girls school (Roger even disguises himself as a girl for the rest of the episode). After meeting their roommates, known only as [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Spitz and the Babe,"]] Steve and Roger question how Steve was able to get into the school even though he's a boy--Spitz (who's studying pre-law) explains that Steve was accepted due to a technically in the school's charter (it's never revealed what the technicality is). After noticing about how a lot of stuff about their situation at PA just seems really ''off'', Roger's GenreSavvy enough to figure out that he and Steve are in a PoorlyDisguisedPilot for a SpinOff with Steve as the lead character.

* ''Film/TheEmperorsClub''. At the end of the movie, it's opened up to girls as well.
* ''Film/SchoolTies''
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.
* The ''Film/StTrinians'' franchise
* ''Film/AuRevoirLesEnfants''
* ''Flirting''

* ''Film/TheHairyBird''

* ''Film/Suspiria1977'' - horror ballet