Does Title IX prohibit single-sex elementary and secondary schools?
OCR always remains open to instructional approaches that will help improve student academic achievement, provided that equal, high-quality educational opportunities are guaranteed for all. Accordingly, Title IX permits single-sex, nonvocational public schools, as long as comparable facilities, courses, and services are made available to the excluded sex based on the same admission policies and criteria. The Title IX regulations voluntary affirmative action provision also permits single-sex schools if they are designed to overcome conditions that have resulted in limited participation by sex.
