Louisville High School Learning at Louisville

What sets Louisville apart?
Its small size, its single-sex environment, and its distinctive programs.

Louisville High School provides each of its students with a strong, carefully developed college-preparatory curriculum. The course of study at Louisville has been designed not only to prepare students for successful college-level work, but also to provide girls with creative and critical-thinking skills that will allow them to become constructive, contributing leaders in their community.

The Louisville Difference

Teachers at Louisville really know their students and are personally invested in their individual success. Girls at Louisville don’t fall through the cracks – they are directed towards programs that fit their unique goals and fuel their enthusiasm.

All-girls schools have a research-proven advantage for teenage girls. According to a recent UCLA study, graduates demonstrate higher levels of academic engagement, SAT scores, and confidence in mathematical ability and computer skills than co-ed grads.

Academic News

From Garbage to Garden
The idea for a campus composting program started in 2019 when AP Environmental Science students conducted a waste audit. Donning gloves and full-body Tyvek suits, students opened up bags of trash and sorted items into categories. The data students collected made clear just how much of our waste could actually be composted if composting were made available.

Nearly a third of waste produced on campus had
the potential to be composted and combined with recycling, 60% of waste could be diverted from
the landfill completely. With the advent of our new program we are now able to make significant strides towards that waste diversion goal.
Louisville's Investment in Innovation
Louisville's Innovation Lab is a collaborative workspace where students create with 3D printers, laser cutters, a vinyl cutter, sewing machines, large monitors with highly efficient computers, and a drop-down green screen. Exciting projects began with our return to school in the 21-22 school year!

Using the Design Thinking model, students created prototypes of endothermic reaction applications, wind turbines, stress-relief tools, and things that encourage biodiversity. They even created amazing enhancements to our physical limitations!
Focus Program for Career Readiness
While COVID influenced all aspects of school routine, the Focus Program was able to leverage our supportive parents and alumnae (and Microsoft Teams) and create one of our BEST YEARS EVER! This year’s unique restrictions opened the door for online seminars, informational interviews, and virtual field trips with mentors who would normally be out of reach to our students.
Mock Trial Champions 2020
Congratulations LA County Champions! Guided by coach Michael Telesca, prevailed in the last round of the LA County Tournament Finals, in which 80+ teams from all over the state participated. This victory marks our 11th LA County title in Mock Trial. We are so unbelievably proud of our Mock Trial team!
Stanford Leadership Summit
Five Focus Program students, Jeanette Andia ‘21, Amanda Coye ‘21, Ava Browne ‘22, Saori Cochachin ‘22, and Sarah Stern ‘22, attended the Stanford Young Women’s Leadership Summit, a 2-day conference for high school girls hosted by the Stanford Women in Business organization, which was held virtually this year. Keynote speakers opened the event and were followed by workshops focused on professional and positive communication, career exploration, issues of race and gender, social media potential, and personal priorities and dreams.

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Grads of all-girls schools show stronger academic orientations than coed grads, according to UCLA study.

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.
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"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.

"As an all-girls school, Louisville enabled me to be confident in all aspects of my life. This confidence pushed me to not back down from challenges that I met in all aspects of my life. Wanting to attend and play sports at Cal--one of the top public universities in the world--was a goal made possible from my time spent growing at Louisville. I learned how to manage my time and focus on my academics as well as my athletics."

Nicole Henriksson '13