Because girls thrive at Stella!

• Sustained strong academic outcomes
• A broad curriculum offering
• Diverse extra-curricular choices to provide balance and opportunity
• A clear focus on girls’ pastoral care and personal development needs (wellbeing is our everything)
• Values-based education for a changing and challenging world
• A supportive community with a common goal
• The benefits of single-sex education (read the research below)
• A quality independent school experience (without the price tag of other schools)
• The only Catholic all-girls' school on the Northern Beaches

Why choose a girls' school?

The International Coalition of Girls' Schools points to the advantages of an all-girls' education:

Girls' schools are more relevant today than ever before.

Girls’ schools are places where girls take centre stage. They occupy every seat in student government, every spot on the math team, and every position in the robotics club. In fact, every aspect of a girls’ school – from the classroom to the athletic field to the academic program – is designed for girls. A girls’ school environment adds opportunities for girls.

Girls’ schools educate girls to become global changemakers—the women we need to help solve the world’s biggest challenges.

Young women at girls’ schools are inspired to become informed, engaged global citizens who lead with courage, competence, and empathy. Research has proven girls’ school graduates display stronger community involvement, greater cultural competency, and increased political engagement.

Girls’ schools are impacting society’s lack of women going into STEM-related fields.

Girls’ schools are leading the way in STEM education for women in the world. Graduates of girls’ schools are six times more likely to consider majoring in math, science, and technology and three times more likely to consider engineering compared to girls who attended co-ed schools.

Why does this happen?

Research tells us it’s for a variety of reasons, but most notably, it’s that students at girls’ schools have an unlimited number of STEM role models. Research findings note it’s beneficial and powerful for girls, in particular, “to see it in order to be it.” So when every student in extension mathematics and physics or on the esports team is a girl, then every other girl at the school gets the clear message they can excel in those areas.

Girls’ schools prepare girls to become women who rise to the highest levels of leadership.

Girls’ schools foster girls’ voices and encourage girls to exercise their voice at a young age.

At girls’ schools, students are encouraged—really, expected—to speak their minds, without interruption. A national survey found that nearly 87% of girls’ school students feel their voices—their opinions—are respected compared to 58% of girls at coed schools.