Interesting.
I went to a mixed school - and oh boy the boys were annoying! - and we read loads of things. Not Dickens though, that I remember. And none of the Brontes. Did Lord of the Flies, The Power and the Glory, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I was absolutely horrified by Of Mice and Men. Flight of the Heron, about the Jacobite rebellion, Stig of the Dump. The Thirty-nine Steps. Loved that, then read it as an adult and was underwhelmed by it. That’s all that I remember.