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The discourse around this is very confusing, especially as a non American who has never been in an American school bathroom.
What you're describing sounds like a normal public toilet set up in my country
There's a hallway or doorway into an open space with mirrors sinks and hand dryers, sometimes that hallway has a door to it, but often it's just an open door frame. Sometimes they'll put a 90 degree turn in the hall to obscure looking straight in, but not always.
Behind the sinks are private stalls. At more expensive locations they'll have semiambulant stalls, some will even have their own sink inside the stall so that the full access toilet and wash room can be available to those who can't ambulate.
(full access toilets and wash rooms are entirely seperate from the sink and stalls)
The sink area is often still segregated by gender at older establishments, but anyone walking past could glimpse in and see /shock fully dressed people washing their hands!
From the school restrooms I've seen depicted in various British TV shows, there isn't much physical difference. The only practical difference is that males, females, and various other genders might be washing hands in the same room at the same time. Now with a window to remind everyone that the sink area is a public space, and isn't to be used as a changing area.