Atlanta Girls' School

Atlanta Girls’ School opened its doors in 2000, and is the only independent, nonsectarian, college-preparatory school for girls in grades 6 through 12 in Georgia. AGS provides a challenging college-preparatory program in a learning environment designed to foster the full potential of each student and to enable her to become a vital contributor to our complex global society. We achieve this by using proven and emerging educational techniques tailored to how girls learn, integrating big-picture thinking, high expectations, and leading-edge technologies. Our girls learn to take appropriate risks, be courageous leaders, give back to their communities, and project personal confidence and competence in all they do.

AGS’s mission, Inspiring Girls to Lead Lives of Purpose, is more important than ever before and is at the heart of all the programs we offer. In a world becoming exponentially more complex, girls will face challenges in college and beyond that will require curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and confidence to be solved.

At Atlanta Girls’ School, we teach girls to be world-class problem solvers. Our curriculum and culture emerge from a distinct vision of what girls must learn individually and collectively to become thoughtful and capable leaders.

Our school provides a safe, ethics-based environment, where community members encourage and support one another, are respectful of one another’s unique talents and interests, and are aware of and accepting of cultural, racial, religious, and economic backgrounds that may be different from their own. We aim to prepare students not only for college, but also for lifelong learning. With a curriculum that is strong in the arts and humanities and in math, science and technology, AGS helps girls and young women become equipped to meet the challenges, demands, and opportunities of the future.

Our girls develop strong cognitive skills that can be applied to problems that are mathematical, scientific, artistic, social, moral, ethical, or personal. These skills, learned in an atmosphere that is intellectually stimulating and emotionally nurturing, allow girls to gain confidence, discipline, and courage and enable them to grow into resilient, responsible, and productive leaders of their communities.

The Atlanta Girls’ School admits qualified students without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sexual orientation, age, national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded and made available to students at the School. The Atlanta Girls’ School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, sexual orientation, age, national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid program, athletics, and other School administered programs and activities.

At AGS, a girl speaks up because she’s not afraid of looking too smart. She offers her ideas freely and welcomes others to do the same. She becomes more confident and comfortable with taking risks. Strong role models help her discover her own strengths, and leadership opportunities from her first year forward give her the hands-on practice crucial to self-confidence. When a girl completes her AGS education, she understands who she is and is ready to thrive in mixed-gender educational, career, and social settings.

Girls learn through relationships with one another and their teachers. At Atlanta Girls’ School, a girl owns her learning because her teachers return questions with questions, encouraging healthy, intellectual risk taking. They scaffold the curriculum so that she learns to solve her own problems. Strong role models inspire her to make a difference, and leadership opportunities from her first year forward give her hands-on practice crucial to self-confidence. When a girl completes her AGS education, she is physically and emotionally strong. She has a big heart, a bright mind, and the capacity and initiative to create change in the world around her.

Whether conducting an experiment to test a scientific concept expressed through literary interpretation, creating graphic designs using art and technology, combining geometry and history to produce theatrical sets, or exploring the vast geographic regions where the complexity of languages and cultures are expressed and understood, our students explore, discover, and make meaning through their learning. In partnership with teachers, families, and coaches, AGS girls make a way through dynamic experiences that shape their voices, their compass, their journeys, and their choices.

At Atlanta Girls’ School, girls go beyond the surface. Girls understand and value the richness of diverse experiences and perspectives, finding purpose within the many intersections of teaching and learning. Each girl has the space and encouragement to understand her talents and fully cultivate her intellectual interests. Whether information technology, literature, environmental science, music, or visual and performing arts, girls are guided thoughtfully to work toward understanding and relevant application of knowledge as active contributors to our complex society.