WHY LOUISVILLE?

Why Louisville?  First and foremost, Louisville is a Catholic school – everything Louisville does is driven by its Catholic philosophy.  The next four years of a young woman’s life are indeed precious ones – they are fragile, vulnerable and formative years.  Over these four years, Louisville prepares its students for the moral, ethical and social decision-making that will confront them when they move into adulthood.  In their adult years, faith formation will never take place in a more concentrated way. Education at Louisville is done in the context of faith, hope, love and service.  Students are seen as gifts from God.  Louisville’s faculty and staff recognize their spiritual dimension and reverence the presence of God in them.  Parents are viewed as partners with Louisville in this education, inspiring them to love God, their neighbors and themselves.

Next, Louisville is a single-gender school.  Such schools are needed more today than ever.  Today, women have more options, but the pressures are greater than in the past.  Adolescent girls struggle more with expectations of looks, success, roles, future, harassment, sex, drugs and alcohol.  Louisville provides an atmosphere of challenge, respect, support, self-reflection and feedback that can prove helpful to young women. 

Louisville helps them to discover, to test and to develop their unique gifts and talents and, at the same time, provide them with emotional and psychological support for personal growth.  To appreciate and value herself as a unique young woman is the best gift each student can be given over the next four years.  A sense of self-worth and self-respect will move her toward responsible relationships with men and other women.

Finally, Louisville is a small school.  Louisville’s enrollment is capped at 500 in order to know the students as individuals.  Giving personal attention to each student, being able to know each one of them and their families, is important to everyone at Louisville.

View our feature in U.S. News and World Report

Grads of all-girls schools show stronger academic orientations than coed grads, according to UCLA study. Read full article from UCLA Newsroom

Female graduates of single-sex high schools demonstrate stronger academic orientations than their coeducational counterparts across a number of different categories, including higher levels of academic engagement, SAT scores, and confidence in mathematical ability and computer skills, according to a UCLA report.

"Women Graduates of Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools: Differences in their Characteristics and the Transition to College" draws data from the annual Freshman Survey, administered by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. The report, which separately considers female students from independent and Catholic high schools nationwide, is based on a comparison of the responses of 6,552 female graduates of 225 private single-sex high schools with those of 14,684 women who graduated from 1,169 private coeducational high schools.

Linda J. Sax, associate professor of education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and the principal investigator of the study, said: "The generally stronger academic orientations of girls-school alumnae ought to serve them well as they arrive at college, though it remains to be seen whether these advantages are sustained once they are immersed in a coeducational college environment."  

Female graduates of single-sex high schools also show higher levels of political engagement, greater interest in engineering careers, measurably more self-confidence in public speaking and a stronger predisposition towards cocurricular engagement.  

"The culture, climate and community of girls' schools as a transforming force speaks loud and clear in the results of this study and confirms that at girls' schools it's 'cool to be smart' — there's a culture of achievement in which a girl's academic progress is of central importance, and the discovery and development of her individual potential is paramount," said Meg Milne Moulton, executive director of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools, which commissioned the study.

To download a copy of "Women Graduates of Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools: Differences in their Characteristics and the Transition to College" (L.J. Sax, E. Arms, M. Woodruff, T. Riggers and K. Eagan), visit www.gseis.ucla.edu/sudikoff.

 

So, why Louisville?  If you -

• are motivated about learning
• are excited about receiving the best education possible
• are in the average to above average ability range and are committed to working diligently
• are strongly committed to serious study
• have shown consistent effort in academics, conduct and attendance throughout your elementary and junior high years
• are involved in your faith and in your church, then…

Louisville is the school for you and your decision will be an easy one.