St Mary’s School
Bateman Street, Cambridge CB2 1LY
01223 224167
stmaryscambridge.co.uk
ocated in central Cambridge, St Mary’s School has been educating and empowering girls since 1898, developing engaged, compassionate young women with the aspirations, confidence and integrity to be themselves and help shape a better world. As a World Class High Performance Learning (HPL) school, St Mary’s teaches its students to understand how they learn, to enable them to academically achieve above what they thought possible. From the moment they start at St Mary’s, girls are taught to dream big and strive to reach their full potential. The result is excellent academic outcomes and young students who are curious, community-minded, courageous and ready to make a positive contribution to society. A PLACE FOR GIRLS Within Cambridgeshire, the all-girls offer of St Mary’s is unique. As the only single-sex school in the county, St Mary’s provides a space where gender stereotypes cannot thrive. The school’s first-class
“Students will find the inspiration, opportunity and support to pursue individual talents with confidence”
education status was recently exemplified when it received the highest grade of ‘excellent’ in its ISI (Independent Schools Inspectorate) inspection. St Mary’s achieved the top grade of ‘excellent’ in both aspects of the Education Quality Inspection, covering the quality of pupils’ academic achievements and their personal development. Inspectors also praised the quality of teaching and parents concurred, giving the school an outstanding overall satisfaction rate of 98%. St Mary’s School was also shortlisted for independent girls school of the year at the Independent School of the Year Awards 2023. A PLACE TO BE ME While academic accolades speak for themselves, studying at St Mary’s is a
holistic experience. Exam qualifications open doors, but it is a student’s self-belief, persistence and drive that keep the door open. Students will find the inspiration, opportunity and support they need to be themselves and pursue their individual talents with confidence and joy so they can succeed in life, whatever their future ambitions. Whether a student’s interests are in sports, arts or STEM, St Mary’s really is the place for her to be herself! A PLACE WITH NO LIMITS In a nurturing, supportive environment, students are encouraged to pursue all their interests, with no academic path off limits. St Mary’s teachers work hard to instil pupils with a passion for maths and science; subjects that, research has shown,
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