The Advantage of a Girls Private School

When seeking a girls private school, choosing the right option for your daughter is one of the most important decisions you will make as a parent. You want her to be in an environment that brings out her very best – intellectually, socially, and emotionally. An environment where she is inspired to reach her full potential.
Why Choose St Hilda’s Girls Private School?
Whilst public schools across Perth and Australia provide a quality education, St Hilda’s offers distinct advantages as a private school. A girls private school like St Hilda’s has far more autonomy in its education and teaching styles, allowing a greater breadth of valuable knowledge to be shared in more effective ways. We also provide a wider breadth of subject choices, extracurricular programs, and leadership opportunities.
Class sizes at public schools and even some private schools are capped at 30 students. St Hilda’s cap classroom numbers at a maximum of 24, allowing for much more personalised attention and a comparatively smaller group to develop in. Our teachers are only required to educate girls. They develop specialised methods and really get to know each student’s strengths and areas for growth. At co-ed public and private schools, teachers must split their focus.
From a social and behavioural standpoint, girls private schools generally foster a tighter-knit community compared to public schools, and any major disruptions due to poor behaviour can be dealt with more efficiently.
St Hilda’s History and Success
For over 100 years, St Hilda’s Anglican girls private school has empowered generations of young women to thrive. Our graduates leave St Hilda’s not just educated, but confident, motivated, and ready to make their mark on the world.
We attribute this success to our unwavering commitment to girls’ education, meeting the needs of girls, and helping each student flourish. Our outstanding academic programs, talented teachers, excellent facilities, and vibrant community come together to create a premier learning environment.
Girls receive the individual care and attention they deserve. They are encouraged to pursue their passions, take on leadership roles, and stretch themselves. The result is learning without limits for your daughter.
The St Hilda’s Difference
As Perth’s premier girls private school since 1896, St Hilda’s offers a progressive approach to education. We believe in educating the whole person – academically, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
Our outstanding academic programs, talented teachers, and excellent facilities provide the foundation for success. Students also benefit from our focus on developing leadership, confidence, creativity, and social responsibility.
Some key features that St Hilda’s offers include:
- Capped class sizes – Our class sizes are capped at a maximum of 24 students, allowing for individualised attention, where teachers have the ability to get to know each girl well, early in the school year.
- State-of-the-art facilities – We continually invest in our facilities and resources. Girls enjoy bright, modern classrooms as well as art, science, and technology suites.
- Cutting-edge curriculum – Our strategic plan challenges what knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values will today’s students need to thrive and shape their world, and how we can develop these effectively.
- Gifted and talented opportunities – St Hilda’s has several opportunities embedded within the curriculum programs where our girls have access to competitions, programs, and experiences that rival even the state’s top selective schools.
- Focus on wellbeing – St Hilda’s Culture of Care is a multi-dimensional approach to wellbeing, supported by our five strategic pillars – Connect, Thrive, Shine, Evolve, Initiate.
- Broad extracurricular choices – With over 30 activities from coding to dance, girls find their passions. Leadership programs also inspire community action.
- Christian values – With Anglican roots, we welcome all backgrounds but have strong values of compassion, integrity, and service.
Additional Programs at St Hilda’s Girls Private School
As a leading Girls Private School in WA, St Hilda’s has developed several unique programs that enhance student learning and establish important life skills.
Building ESSTEAMTM for Girls
ESSTEAM™ is an Entrepreneurship program that establishes leadership skills in students to help solve Sustainability problems in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. With the help of this program, our girls can turn concepts into solutions and ideas into actions. The goal is to inspire inventive and adaptive thinkers with a desire for additional learning.
Year 9 Wandering Spirit Program
This compulsory year-long Year 9 program provides students the opportunity to learn more about themselves and how they interact with the people and nature around them. The Wandering Spirit Program inspires deep thought and guides our students to consider their direction in life – especially important leading into the senior years at our girls private school.
St Hilda’s Tutoring Centre
The St Hilda’s Tutoring Centre saves you the hassle of sourcing a single-subject tutor for your daughter. This program is an innovative hub of academic support for senior school students to attend as often as they need. We’ve made specialist teachers for all subjects available each day at lunchtime and after school to support students in a one-on-one or small group tutoring session. This program is especially sought after for time management assistance, study skills, and exam preparation.
Nurturing Tomorrow’s Leaders
At St Hilda’s, we empower girls to lead with courage and compassion. We have a commitment to creating a school of the future, that provides young women with the skills to flourish in this world beyond our gates.
Girls have the chance to take on leadership roles at St Hilda’s girls private school as house captains, sports captains, choir leaders and more. Leadership potential is nurtured early, setting up our graduates for future success. We also connect girls to inspiring female role models who are leaders in STEM, business, politics and beyond.
We regularly celebrate and shine a spotlight on the extraordinary women who passed through the halls of St Hilda’s and emerged as resilient, innovative, and successful in the business landscape.
Discover St Hilda’s Girls Private School
We invite prospective parents and students to visit St Hilda’s and experience firsthand the engaging environment and stellar education we offer. Learn more about the enrolment process and get a feel for the spirit of St Hilda’s by booking a tour of our girls private school in Perth.