Over three-quarters of all high-school dropouts are boys; boys are assigned 70 percent of all Ds and Fs. An all-boys school can meet this particular crisis head-on by implementing programs that foster success in education.
Classroom disruptions are fewer in all-boys schools because classes are customized toward physical activity and building on a boy's strong sense of spatial-mechanics. Science experiments are often more explosive, smelly and include interest-generating animals such as snakes and salamanders.
Teachers who work at all-boys schools are selected because they have the unique experience teaching boys and holding their attention, and are aware of the educational challenges boys can present.
Despite the notion that boys do well in "masculine" subjects like science and math, many boys who are interested in the arts feel freer to attend foreign language, music, drama and art classes in an all-boys school.
Stereotypes of "geeks," "nerds" and "jocks" are not as prevalent in all-boys schools due to a lessening of the boys' impulse to impress girls by fitting into a certain category or by belittling other male classmates.