Girls at Whanganui High School may be able to wear pants as part of a new school uniform from next year.
The change is one of the possible outcomes possible from a uniform review which the school is currently undertaking.
Earlier this year student Karla Mills was sent home because she wore trousers to school in violation of the school's uniform policy.
She later appeared on TVNZ's Fair Go arguing that making girls wear skirts was "following the rules from the 1950s".
"We should be catching up with the times and not living in the past," she said.