Girls' School Sacramento: Where Girls Come First

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Girls’ School Sacramento, an independent day school for girls in grades kindergarten through eighth. Girls’ School Sacramento is a warm and personal educational community where faculty, staff and administration work to educate the whole girl- steering away from outdated stereotypes- focusing instead on current research about the ways in which girls best learn.

GSS has finished its exhaustive search. We have moved into suite 6 of the Miyamoto Building located at 1450 Halyard Drive in West Sacramento. We could not be more pleased. It has everything for which we were looking- an exciting yet safe location just minutes from downtown Sacramento.

Our educational philosophy, including our use of the Core Knowledge curriculum is based on a firm commitment to high academic standards, a deep appreciation of the arts, and a strong focus on a healthy mind- body- spirit connection.

Our school motto,  “si vincit qui se vincit” (she conquers who conquers herself), captures in words the ultimate goal of a GSS education:  academic knowledge paired with self- understanding, self-worth, and self- esteem to prepare young women for bright futures in the 21st century.

GSS provides an atmosphere that supports responsible risk taking, a faculty that nurtures, motivates, and challenges each girl on an individual basis, and a breadth of educational opportunities that works for all students. We are dedicated to the healthy growth of our students from little girls to young women.

I look forward to working with you and your daughter(s).

Kimberly Taylor Oliva
Head of School

“Schools that use gender as a lens to understand boys and girls on their own terms create opportunities that open them up- not close them down… Single sex schools give boys and girls a chance to take time out from each other- to learn to be who they are and achieve their potential in all their gendered and human glory.”

-Lorraine Garnett Ward

Lorraine Garnett Ward was a dean at Wellesley College for twenty years. For the past six years, she has been chair of the English department at an all-boys school.