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co-educational adjective

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Definition

having male and female students being taught together in the same school or college rather than separately
Girls tend to do better academically in single-sex schools than in co-educational ones.

(Definition of co-educational adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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