In a girls’ school, students feel comfortable expressing themselves and engaging in a safe exchange of ideas. In this environment, they are free to focus on their academic growth without societal pressures and expectations about the “right” way for a girl to be.
Girls’ school graduates are more likely to seek alternative solutions to a problem and achieve greater academic success. This is because girls’ schools are dedicated to delivering lessons in ways that are optimised for girls’ learning styles. This includes maintaining a supportive classroom environment, delivering frequent, actionable feedback, and cultivating purposeful positive learning interactions with teachers and peers.
Globally, during the middle school years, girls show a decline in both their performance and confidence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Girls’ schools mitigate this decline by championing the learning needs and environments girls need to achieve success in these subjects and career pathways. Girls’ school graduates are six times more likely to consider majoring in maths, science, and technology.
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Graduates of girls’ schools are more likely to positively impact their communities by participating in social action programs, environmental programs and volunteer programs. Our students become active global citizens who understand how to enact positive change and find purpose in building stronger communities.
Girls’ school students strengthen their voices and are encouraged to speak freely, thoughtfully and without interruption. They are more likely than their female peers at coeducational schools to experience an environment that welcomes an open and safe exchange of ideas. Nearly 87% of girls’ school students feel their opinions are respected at their school compared to only 58% at coeducational schools.
At girls’ schools, students demonstrate great confidence in female leadership and become increasingly interested in leadership positions themselves. Programs at girls’ schools focus on the development of teamwork over other qualities of leadership, while the qualities of confidence, compassion and resilience also ranked prominently. 93% of girls’ school graduates say they were offered greater leadership opportunities than coeducated peers and 80% have held leadership positions since graduating from high school.
Our girls have the absolute right to be and do whatever they choose and we can equip them with the skills, knowledge and values to take that step forward into the world as articulate and participating members of society.