List of girls' schools in the United States

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[edit]

Arkansas[edit]

Mount St. Mary Academy (Little Rock)

California[edit]

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 Francisco Girls' School (San Francisco)

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

Connecticut[edit]

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[edit]

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

Former

Tatnall School (became coed)

District of Columbia (Washington, DC)[edit]

Florida[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Illinois[edit]

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[edit]

Closed

Immaculate Conception Academy (Davenport)

Kentucky[edit]

Louisville

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[edit]

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[edit]

former girls' schools

Maryland[edit]

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

Massachusetts[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Convent of the Visitation School (Mendota Heights)

Mississippi[edit]

Our Lady Academy (Bay St. Louis)

Missouri[edit]

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[edit]

New Jersey[edit]

New York City area

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[edit]

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

Brooklyn

Queens

Bronx

Staten Island

Hudson Valley

Long Island

Capital District

Albany Academy for Girls

Western New York

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[edit]

Ohio[edit]

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

Toledo area

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[edit]

St. Mary's Academy (Portland, Oregon)

Pennsylvania[edit]

Philadelphia area

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)