Why an All-Girl Education?

Girls Put Academics First

• Girls at single-sex schools surpass their co-ed peers in reading, writing and science. They also demonstrate higher educational aspirations, spend more time on homework and are more likely to aspire to careers in engineering and science. (Linda Sax, Ph.D. "Graduates of Single Sex and Coed High Schools" UCLA, NCGS presentation June, 2008)
• 84 percent of all-girl school graduates felt they were better prepared for college writing assignments than their co-ed peers. (NCGS Survey, 2005)
  

Girls Enjoy Every Opportunity

• All leadership roles at all-girl schools are taken by girls.
• "When girls go to single-sex schools, they stop being the audience and become the players." (Myra and David Sadker, American University)
  

Girls Take Academic Risks

• At girls' schools, every girl learns to take on academic challenges, express her thoughts and opinions and participate in new learning experiences.
• "As a college professor, I could identify students from girls' schools with a 90 percent accuracy rate on the first day of class. They were the young women whose hands shot up in the air, who were not afraid to defend their positions, and who assumed that I would be interested in their perspectives." (Robin Robertson, Ph.D.)
  

Girls Thrive when Their Learning Style Takes Center Stage

• Educators at all-girl schools capitalize on girls' unique learning styles.
• "During these key adolescent years [12-16], single-sex settings better accommodate the developmental needs of students." (Ken Rowe, Natl. Conference on Co-Education, 2000)
  

Girls Acquire Leadership for Life Skills

• Opportunities for girls to learn leadership skills are more plentiful at all-girl schools.
• Graduates of girls' schools and/or women's colleges account for a third of female board members of Fortune 500 companies and 25% of female members of Congress. (Natl. Coalition of Girls' Schools, 2006)