For 16-year-old Christine Basil, sharing a classroom with only girls allows her to be more comfortable at school ? from speaking up in class to deciding what to wear in the morning.

“I feel like I am at home, like I am with a part of my family,” said Christine, a senior at Mount de Sales Academy, a private Catholic high school in Catonsville.

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