Girls’ schools create the best environment for girls to learn, grow, and develop.

At Mount Carmel College, girls are at the centre of everything we do. We are committed to the education of girls from Kinder to Year 10 and offer our students a safe learning environment where they are free to achieve their personal best and discover their passions.

Educational research from around the world coupled with our experience tells us that single-sex education offers girls the greatest chance to challenge stereotypes, develop strong self-worth and build confidence to thrive in school and beyond.

Academic Advantages

Girls in single-sex schools find it easier to grow and perform better academically than their co-educational counterparts. For girls, single-sex settings result in much more favourable attitudes towards mathematics and science related subjects than those in co-educational settings.

Countless Opportunities

Girls enjoy not only equal opportunities, but every opportunity. All activities are open to girls; they participate, influence and lead. Girls show fewer inhibitions and take more positive risks.

Role Models and Leadership

In a girls-only school, a girl gets every opportunity and occupies every role; every part in the play, every student leadership role, every position on every team. Younger students see these female leaders as role models and learn that girls can lead in any field.

Counteracting Negative Influences

Girls can work through the challenges of adolescence without fear of embarrassment or harassment. There are fewer opportunities for stereotyping of subjects and less barriers to girls pursuing their interests, whether they are in sport, academia or other co-curricular areas.

A Tailored Curriculum

Girls’ education is a specialised field. Studies have shown that tailoring classes, curriculum, programs and opportunities to suit girls is enormously beneficial. Students are more likely to be engaged and feel free to participate in class.

Global Citizens

Girls’ schools prepare students to be citizens of the world with an emphasis on social justice and community. Girls emerge as a connected and engaged learner, prepared to succeed and contribute to a complex and rapidly changing world.

Mount Carmel College is proud to be an active member of the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools who is the leading advocate for girls’ schools, dedicated to educating and empowering girls. For more information on the benefits of an all-girls education we encourage you to view the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia website.

To help families better understand how an all-girls education can engage, challenge, inspire and prepare their daughters, the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools has researched a Top 10 list of reasons to consider enrolling your child in a girls’ school.

  1. Allowing Girls to be Themselves: girls’ schools provide an environment where students feel safe to express themselves and engage in an open and safe exchange of ideas.
  2. Preparing Girls for the Real World: girls’ school engage students in activities that prepare them for life beyond the classroom.
  3. Providing Excellent Mentoring: girls’ school students are mentored by a community of peers, teachers, and school administrators.
  4. Nurturing Higher Aspirations: girls’ school students strive for greatness.
  5. Dedication to How Girls Learn: girls’ schools capitalise on girls’ unique learning styles.
  6. Focus on STEM: girls’ schools champion the educational needs of girls as a group that is underrepresented in STEM majors and careers.
  7. Developing Leadership Skills: girls’ schools empower students to become bold leaders.
  8. Building Self-Confidence: at girls’ schools, girls occupy every role.
  9. Academic Achievement: girls’ schools create a culture of achievement.
  10. Inspirational Environment: girls’ schools champion the educational needs of girls.

Quoted research from the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools website, 2023.