Why a Girls' School?

The Benefits of Attending a Girls' School:

WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS

Girls dare to take on - and succeed in - the real world.
Self-confidence is the key to turning skills and knowledge into success.

Dr. Salomone, author of Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex
Schooling, states, "One of the key arguments supporting single-sex programs is that they create an institutional and classroom climate in which female students can express themselves freely and frequently, and develop higher order thinking skills."

The confidence and sense of self-worth they gain will carry right into the college classroom....84% of freshmen felt they were better prepared for college writing assignments, comparing themselves to classmates who had attended co-ed schools, and most felt better prepared for public speaking as well.

"Having conducted research on single-sex and co-educational schools for the past two decades, I have concluded that single- sex schools help to improve student achievement."

"Modern biology shows that an individual's learning environment influences the growth of new patterns of activity in the brain-it even shapes how genes are expressed in the brain activity."

"Girls' schools provide an environment that not only is good in and of itself, but that in its redefinition of competitiveness and collaboration, of autonomy and connectedness, presents a model that other schools do well to emulate."

Every girl deserves the opportunity to realize her full potential, to draw forth her talents and discover new ones, in a setting where she is valued for who she is and what she brings to the experience.

Girls' schools know that students who are held to the highest expectations, given access to the best resources, and who are led to understand that serious schooling is theirs for the taking--these are students who do not turn back. This is exactly the culture of a girls' school, and time spent within one transforms girls. It is a sound investment for life.