Girls’ schools focus on the distinct learning styles of girls and can respond to the nascent and still-evolving research on the learning differences between girls and boys. Teachers finely match their teaching to the ways girls learn and develop their courses to girls’ needs.

Girls’ schools provide an environment for intellectual risk-taking free of embarrassment and powerful age-determined notions of popularity, attractiveness or peer pressure; an environment that allows girls to explore and nurture their interests, talents and leadership, while free from the unhealthy social distractions often inherent in a co-ed environment; an environment that counteracts the negative influences of mass media and its often-troubling depictions of women.

Girls at all levels of academic ability and socio-economic status did better in single-sex schools than in co-ed schools. (Source: National Foundation for Educational Research, UK)

Girls at single-sex schools were more likely to take non-traditional courses, courses which run against gender stereotypes, such as advanced math and physics. (Source: National Foundation for Educational Research, UK)

Graduates from girls' schools are more than twice as likely to earn doctorates. (Source: NCGS)

Graduates from girls' schools are more than four times as likely to pursue careers in math, science and technology. (Source: NCGS)

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. (Source: NCGS)

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 achieve later in their careers. (Source: University of Michigan Study)