List of girls' schools in the United States explained

Here are lists of schools which only admit girls, or which only admit girls in certain grade levels, or which separate students by gender, in the United States

Arizona

• Girls Leadership Academy of Arizona
• Spring Ridge Academy
• Xavier College Preparatory (Phoenix)

Arkansas

• Mount St. Mary Academy (Little Rock)

California

Los Angeles area

• Alverno High School (Sierra Madre)
• The Archer School for Girls (Los Angeles)
• Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School (Los Angeles)
• Cornelia Connelly High School (Anaheim)
• Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy (La Cañada Flintridge)
• Holy Family High School (Glendale)
• Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles)
• La Reina High School (Thousand Oaks)
• Louisville High School (Los Angeles)
• Marlborough School (Los Angeles)
• Marymount High School (Los Angeles)
• Mayfield Senior School (Pasadena)
• Notre Dame Academy (Los Angeles)
• New Village Girls Academy (Los Angeles)
• Pomona Catholic High School (Pomona)
• Ramona Convent Secondary School (Alhambra)
• Rosary High School (Fullerton)
• Sacred Heart High School (Los Angeles)
• St. Joseph High School (Lakewood)
• St. Lucy's Priory High School (Glendora)
• St. Mary's Academy (Inglewood)
• San Gabriel Mission High School (San Gabriel)
• Westridge School (Pasadena)
• YULA Girls High School (Los Angeles)

San Francisco Bay Area

• Katherine Delmar Burke School (San Francisco)
• Carondelet High School (Concord)
• Castilleja School (Palo Alto)
• Convent of the Sacred Heart High School (San Francisco)
• The Girls' Middle School (Palo Alto)
• The Hamlin School (San Francisco)
• Holy Names High School (Oakland)
• Immaculate Conception Academy (San Francisco)
• Mercy High School (Burlingame)
• Mercy High School (San Francisco)
• Julia Morgan School for Girls (Oakland)
• Notre Dame High School (Belmont)
• Notre Dame High School (San Jose)
• Presentation High School (San Jose)

San Diego area

• The Academy of Our Lady of Peace (San Diego)
• Torah High Schools of San Diego (San Diego)

Sacramento area

• St. Francis High School (Sacramento)

Monterey area:

• Santa Catalina School (coed elem-mid, all girls' high)
• Notre Dame High School (Salinas)

Former schools

• Corvallis High School
• Notre Dame High School San Francisco

Colorado

• St. Mary's Academy (Englewood)
• The Girls Athletic Leadership Schools - GALS Denver (Denver)

Connecticut

• Academy of the Holy Family (Baltic)
• Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton Hall (Milford)
• Convent of the Sacred Heart (Greenwich)
• Greenwich Academy
• Mercy High School (Middletown)
• Miss Porter's School (Farmington)
• Sacred Heart Academy (Hamden)
• Ethel Walker School (Simsbury)
• Westover School (Middlebury)

Merged:

• Rosemary Hall (Connecticut)

Former:

• Canterbury Female Boarding School

Delaware

• Padua Academy (Wilmington)
• Ursuline Academy (Coed elementary, girls' secondary) (Wilmington)

Former

• Tatnall School (became coed)

District of Columbia (Washington, DC)

• Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
• National Cathedral School

Florida

Miami area

• Young Women's Preparatory Academy (Miami)
• Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart (Miami)
• Our Lady of Lourdes Academy (Miami-Dade County)
• Beis Chana High School for Girls
• Beth Jacob High School / Bais Yaakov School
• Sha'arei Bina Torah Academy for Girls

Tampa/St. Petersburg

• Academy of the Holy Names (Tampa) (girls only for high school)

Other

• Pace Center for Girls

Georgia

• Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy (Atlanta)
• Atlanta Girls' School
• St. Vincent's Academy (Savannah)

Pinecrest Academy (Cumming) puts boys and girls in separate classes.

Former girls' schools:

• Girls High School (Atlanta) (Became coeducational)
• Mount de Sales Academy (Became coeducational)

Hawaii

• La Pietra (Honolulu)
• Sacred Hearts Academy (Honolulu)
• St. Andrew's Priory School (Honolulu)
• Huakailani School for Girls (K-8) (Kaneohe CDP)^[1]

Illinois

Chicago area

• Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago
• Aqsa School (Bridgeview)
• De La Salle Institute (girls' campus) (Chicago)
• Josephinum Academy (Chicago)
• Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School (Chicago)
• Our Lady of Tepeyac High School (Chicago)
• Regina Dominican High School (Wilmette)
• Resurrection High School (Chicago)
• Rosary High School (Aurora)
• Trinity High School (Chicago)
• The Willows Academy (Des Plaines)
• Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart (Lake Forest)

Closed

• Marywood Academy/School (Skokie)
• Girton School for Girls (Winnetka)
• Mount Assisi Academy (Lemont)
• Queen of Peace High School (Burbank)

Merged

• Academy of Notre Dame (Belleville area/Southern Illinois)
• Madonna Catholic High School (Aurora)
• Sacred Heart Academy (Lisle)
• St. Francis Academy (Joliet)
• Saint Louise de Marillac High School (Northfield) merged with Loyola Academy

Became coeducational

• Guerin College Preparatory High School (River Grove)
• Roycemore School (Evanston)

Closed

• Notre Dame High School for Girls (Chicago)

Iowa

Closed:

• Immaculate Conception Academy (Davenport)

Kentucky

Louisville

• Assumption High School
  • • Mercy Academy Presentation Academy Sacred Heart Academy

Northern Kentucky

• Notre Dame Academy (Park Hills)

former girls' schools:

• Angela Merici High School (Louisville; merged with the all-boys Bishop David High School in 1984 to create the current Holy Cross High School)
• Loretto High School (Louisville; merged into the formerly all-boys Flaget High School in 1973, which would close a year later)
• Our Lady of Providence Academy (Academy of Notre Dame de Providence), merged with the all-boys Newport Catholic High School in 1983 to create the current Newport Central Catholic High School

Louisiana

• Academy of Our Lady (Jefferson Parish)
• Academy of the Sacred Heart (Grand Coteau)
• Academy of the Sacred Heart (New Orleans)
• Archbishop Chapelle High School (Metairie)
• Cabrini High School (New Orleans)
• McGehee School (New Orleans)
• Mount Carmel Academy (New Orleans)
• St. Joseph's Academy (Baton Rouge)
• St. Mary's Academy (New Orleans)
• St. Mary's Dominican High School (New Orleans)
• St. Scholastica Academy (Covington)
• Ursuline Academy (New Orleans)
• Christian Brothers School (New Orleans) girls' middle school - The school has a PK-4 coeducational elementary school in both locations, an all girls' 5-7 middle school in the Canal Street Campus, and an all boys' 5-7 middle school in the City Park Campus.^[2]

Became coeducational:

• Eleanor McMain Secondary School (New Orleans)

Maine

former girls' schools

• The Maine Girls' Academy
• Catherine McAuley High School

Maryland

Baltimore area:

• Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women
• Western High School (Baltimore)
• Bryn Mawr School (Baltimore)
• The Catholic High School of Baltimore
• Garrison Forest School (Owings Mills)
• Institute of Notre Dame (Baltimore)
• Maryvale Preparatory School (Lutherville)
• Mercy High School (Baltimore)
• Mount de Sales Academy (Catonsville)
• Notre Dame Preparatory School (Towson)
• Oldfields School (Glencoe)
• Roland Park Country School (Baltimore)
• St. Paul's School for Girls (Brooklandville)
• St. Timothy's School (Stevenson)
• Seton Keough High School (Baltimore)
• Western High School (Baltimore)

Washington, DC area:

• Academy of the Holy Cross
• Brookewood School (Kensington)
• Connelly School of the Holy Child (Potomac)
• Elizabeth Seton High School (Bladensburg)
• Holton-Arms School (Bethesda)
• Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart (Bethesda)

Former girls' schools:

Closed

• Eastern High School (Baltimore)
• Eastern Female High School (Baltimore)
• La Reine High School (DC area)

Massachusetts

• Academy of Notre Dame (lower school co-ed, upper school all-girls) (Tyngsboro)
• Dana Hall School (Wellesley)
• Fontbonne Academy (Milton)
• Miss Hall's School (Pittsfield)
• Mount Alvernia High School (Newton)
• Nashoba Brooks School (lower school co-ed, middle school all-girls) (Concord)
• Newton Country Day School (Newton)
• Notre Dame Academy (Hingham)
• Notre Dame Academy (Worcester)
• Stoneleigh-Burnham School (Greenfield)
• Ursuline Academy (Dedham)
• Winsor School (Boston)
• Woodward School for Girls (Quincy)

Former girls' schools

Became coeducational

• Boston Latin Academy

Closed

• Girls' High School (later became coeducational as Roxbury High School)

Michigan

Detroit area

• Detroit International Academy for Young Women (Detroit)
• Academy of the Sacred Heart (Bloomfield Township, grades 9-12 are girls' only)
• Ladywood High School (Livonia)
• Marian High School (Bloomfield Township)
• Mercy High School (Farmington Hills)
• Regina High School (Warren)
• St. Catherine of Siena Academy (Wixom)

Former

• Girls Catholic Central High School
• Our Lady of Guadalupe Girls' Middle School^[3]

Minnesota

• Convent of the Visitation School (Mendota Heights)

Mississippi

• Our Lady Academy (Bay St. Louis)

Missouri

• Cor Jesu Academy (St. Louis)
• Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls (St. Louis)
• Incarnate Word Academy (Bel-Nor)
• Nerinx Hall High School (Webster Groves)
• Notre Dame de Sion School, Kansas City
• Notre Dame High School (St. Louis)
• Rosati-Kain High School (St. Louis)
• St. Joseph's Academy (St. Louis)
• St. Teresa's Academy (Kansas City)
• Ursuline Academy (Oakland)
• Villa Duchesne (Frontenac) (all-girls grades 7-12, co-ed elementary)
• Visitation Academy of St. Louis

Former girls' schools

Became coeducational

• Laboure High School. Became Cardinal Ritter College Prep (St. Louis)

Closed

• Xavier High School. Building sold to St. Louis University
• St. Alphonsus Rock High School
• St. Elizabeth Academy (Missouri) (St. Louis)

Nebraska

• Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (Nebraska)
• Marian High School (Nebraska)
• Mercy High School (Omaha, Nebraska)

New Jersey

New York City area

• Girls' Academy of Newark
  • • • • Academy of the Holy Angels Academy of Saint Elizabeth Benedictine Academy Bruriah High School for Girls Immaculate Conception High School
  • Immaculate Heart Academy Kenmare High School
• Kent Place School
• Lacordaire Academy (Coed PK-8+girls' high)
  • Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School Mary Help of Christians Academy
    • Mother Seton Regional High School Mount Saint Dominic Academy Mount St. Mary Academy
    • Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child Saint Dominic Academy Saint Vincent Academy
    • Stuart Country Day School Villa Victoria Academy Villa Walsh Academy

Philadelphia area

• Our Lady of Mercy Academy (Franklin Township)

Closed:

• Academy of the Sacred Heart (Hoboken, New Jersey)
• Academy of St. Aloysius (Jersey City)
• Caritas Academy (Jersey City)
• Holy Family Academy (Bayonne)

Merged:

• Battin High School (Elizabeth) – Merged into Elizabeth High School

New York

Public (all in New York City)

• Young Women's Leadership School, Brooklyn
• Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women (New York City)
• Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women (New York City)
  • Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem Young Women's Leadership School, Astoria (New York City)
• The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens

Private:

Manhattan

• Brearley School
• Cathedral High School
• Chapin School
• Convent of the Sacred Heart
• Dominican Academy
• Hewitt School
• Manhattan High School for Girls
• Marymount School of New York
• Nightingale-Bamford School
• Notre Dame School
• Spence School
• St. Jean Baptiste High School
• St. Vincent Ferrer High School

Brooklyn

• Beth Jacob High School
• Beth Rivkah
• Bishop Kearney High School
• B’nos Leah Prospect Park Yeshiva School
• B’nos Yisroel High School for Girls
• Fontbonne Hall Academy
• Merkaz Bnos High School
• Shulamith School for Girls of Brooklyn
• Soille Bais Yaakov High School
• St. Joseph High School
• Saint Saviour High School of Brooklyn
• Tomer Devora High School for Girls
• Yeshivat Shaare Torah Girls High School

Queens

• The Mary Louis Academy
• Shevach High School
• St. Agnes Academic High School
• Torah Academy High School for Girls
• Yeshiva University High School for Girls

Bronx

• Academy of Mount St. Ursula
• Aquinas High School
• Preston High School
• St. Barnabas High School
• St. Catharine Academy
• St. Raymond Academy

Staten Island

• Notre Dame Academy
• St. John Villa Academy
• St. Joseph Hill Academy

Hudson Valley

• Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel
• Avir Yaakov Girls School
• Maria Regina High School
• School of the Holy Child
• The Ursuline School

Long Island

• Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls
• Our Lady of Mercy Academy
• Sacred Heart Academy
• Shulamith School for Girls in Long Island

Capital District

• Academy of the Holy Names
• Albany Academy for Girls

Western New York

• Buffalo Seminary (SEM)
• Mount Mercy Academy^[4]

Became coeducational

• Moore Catholic High School (Staten Island)
• St. Joseph by the Sea High School (Staten Island)

Closed

• Bais Yaakov Machon Academy (Queens)
• Catherine McAuley High School (Brooklyn)
• Mother Cabrini High School (Manhattan)
• The Girls' Commercial High School (became coeducational as Prospect_Heights_High_School and then closed)
• St. Michael Academy (Manhattan)
• Stella Maris High School (Queens)
• St. Peter's High School for Girls (Staten Island)
• Academy of Saint Joseph (Long Island; Coed K-8, Girls' 9-12)

North Carolina

• Saint Mary's School (Raleigh, North Carolina)
• Salem Academy
• Meredith College

Ohio

Columbus

• Columbus School for Girls

Cincinnati area

• Mercy McAuley High School
  • Mother of Mercy High School (Cincinnati, Ohio) merged into McAuley High
• Mount Notre Dame High School
• Seton High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• St. Ursula Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• Ursuline Academy

Cleveland area

• Beaumont School
• Hathaway Brown School
• Laurel School
• Magnificat High School
• Our Lady of the Elms High School
• Saint Joseph Academy

Toledo area

• Notre Dame Academy
• St. Ursula Academy

Former girls' schools

• Hoban Dominican High School (Cleveland area) (closed)
• McAuley High School (Toledo area (closed)
• Regina High School (Cleveland area) (closed)
• St. Augustine Academy (Cleveland area) (closed)
• Sacred Heart Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• St. Joseph Academy - became coed, renamed to Archbishop McNicholas High School
• Ursuline Academy of the Holy Name of Jesus (Youngstown) (became coeducational)
• Notre Dame Academy (Cleveland Area) (merged into coed school)
• Villa Angela Academy (Cleveland area) (merged into coed school)
• Xenia College (Greene County) (became coeducational; renamed three times; closed)

Oregon

• St. Mary's Academy (Portland, Oregon)

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia area

• Philadelphia High School for Girls
• Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy (girls' high school)
• Saint Basil Academy
• Country Day School of the Sacred Heart
• J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School
• Agnes Irwin School
• The Baldwin School
• Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School
• Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls
• Merion Mercy Academy
• Mount Saint Joseph Academy
• Moore College of Art and Design
• Nazareth Academy High School
• Academy of Notre Dame de Namur
• Archbishop Prendergast High School
• St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls
• Villa Joseph Marie High School
• Villa Maria Academy

Pittsburgh area

• The Ellis School
• Oakland Catholic High School

Closed:

• The Young Women's Leadership School at Rhodes High School (Philadelphia)
• Notre Dame Catholic Girls High School (Philadelphia)

Merged:

• Archbishop Prendergast High School - Merged into Bonner & Prendergast High School, which initially had separate campuses by gender
• Saint Maria Goretti High School (Philadelphia) – Merged into Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School
• West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Girls – Merged into West Philadelphia Catholic High School

Rhode Island

• Lincoln School (Providence, Rhode Island)
• St. Mary Academy – Bay View
• Overbrook Academy (grades 6-11)^[5]

Former girls' schools

• Bishop Keough Regional High School (closed)
• Mary Balch's School (defunct)

Texas

Austin area

• Richards School for Young Women Leaders (Austin)

Dallas-Fort Worth

• Rangel Young Women's Leadership School (Dallas)
• Hockaday School (Dallas)
• Mesorah High School for Girls (Dallas)
• Ursuline Academy (Dallas)
• Young Women's Leadership Academy (Fort Worth)
• Young Women's Leadership Academy at Arnold (Grand Prairie)
• Young Women's STEAM Academy at Balch Springs Middle School (Balch Springs) - Dallas ISD^[6]
• Solar Preparatory School for Girls at James B. Bonham - Dallas ISD.^[7]

El Paso

• Loretto Academy (PK-5 coed, 6-12 girls' only)

Houston

• Young Women's College Preparatory Academy
• Duchesne Academy
• Incarnate Word Academy
• Saint Agnes Academy
• The Lawson Academy (formerly William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity (WALIPP) - Texas Southern University (TSU) Preparatory Academy) - girls' program^[8]
• KIPP Voyage Academy for Girls^[9]

Lubbock area

• Talkington School for Young Women Leaders (Lubbock)

San Antonio

• • Incarnate Word High School Providence High School
• Young Women's Leadership Academy

Closed:

• St. Francis Academy (San Antonio)

Merged:

• Dominican High School into O'Connell College Preparatory School

Became coeducational:

• Father Yermo (El Paso)

Virginia

• Madeira School
• Foxcroft School
• Oakcrest School
• St. Catherine's School (Richmond)
• Saint Gertrude High School

In addition King Abdullah Academy, while coeducational, has separate girls' secondary classes.

Washington (state)

• Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
• Holy Names Academy
• Seattle Girls' School
• Annie Wright Schools has a separate girls' high school

Wisconsin

• Divine Savior Holy Angels High School (Milwaukee)
• St. Joan Antida High School (Milwaukee)

Guam

• Academy of Our Lady of Guam

Former girls' schools

• Notre Dame High School (Guam) (became coeducational in 1995)

See also

• Online School for Girls
• Women's education in the United States
• Women's colleges in the United States
  • Timeline of women's colleges in the United States
• List of boys' schools in the United States

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home. Huakailani School for Girls. 2020-01-08. 45-035 Kaneohe Bay Drive, Kaneohe, Hi 96744 (YWCA Kokokahi).
2. Web site: Christian Brothers and St. Anthony of Padua announce new partnership. Fox 8 New Orleans. 2014-08-11. 2020-05-26.
3. Web site: Our Lady of Guadalupe Middle School Detroit Middle School (5-8). Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. https://web.archive.org/web/20060525094715/http://www.aodonline.org/nr/aod/customapplications/school/school.asp?InstitutionID=1468&FRAMELESS=true&NRNODEGUID=%7b463A0ABD-82A2-4333-84E8-ADAFDBADF9A4%7d. 2020-05-02. 2006-05-25.
4. Web site: Melligan . Michelle . Welcome to Mt. Mercy . mtmercy.org . Mount Mercy Academy . May 11, 2022 . Bishop Fisher.
5. Web site: Who We Are?. Overbrook Academy. 2020-05-04.
6. https://www.dallasisd.org/balchsprings Home
7. Fernandez, Demond. "Dallas ISD to open first all-girls S.T.E.A.M. school" (Archive). WFAA. September 28, 2015. Retrieved on September 30, 2015.
8. Web site: Learn about the Lawson Academy. The Lawson Academy. 2019-07-13. - Page discusses how it has separate boys' and girls' programs
9. https://www.kipp.org/school/kipp-voyage-academy-for-girls/ Home