As a parent, one of the most crucial roles you will play is helping your daughter prepare for the future, and education is an important tool you can employ.  While your daughter’s goals may not yet be clear to her, you already know that her happiness and success begins with decisions you make today.  That is why we encourage you to reinforce and support your decisions by considering sending your daughter to Marian High School.  Marian’s relaxed yet highly academic learning environment, grounded in religious values, is designed to make our young women the center of learning, leadership, growth and endless opportunity.

Sponsored by the Servants of Mary, Marian High School is Nebraska’s only Class A, Catholic, North Central Accredited college preparatory school for young women.  At Marian, each young woman will have the opportunity to develop and grow spiritually, intellectually and socially.  Research shows that young women in all-girls schools have higher self-esteem, are more interested in non-traditional subjects such as science and math and are less likely to stereotype jobs and careers.  They are generally intellectually curious, serious about their studies and overall achieve more¹.   
 

Recent studies cite many factors for the positive influence of single-sex schools on young women.

• When girls become the focal point, they rise to a greater level of development than might otherwise ordinarily be the case². 
  
  
• Single-sex activities many times serve to “inoculate” girls against some of the societal aliments that now threaten children and teenagers³. 
  
  
• Students in single-sex schools have fewer disciplinary problems, fewer unexcused absences, students did just over an hour more homework per week, and watched less television per weekday4. 
  
  
• A girl who attends a single-sex school is more self-reliant and less inclined to be persuaded against what she knows internally4.

For more information about the benefits of single-sex education click on the links below:
The National Coalition of Girls' Schools
The National Association for Single Sex Public Education
Women's Schools Together

References
1.  Sadker, Myra and David.  Failing at Fairness: How America’s Schools 
            Cheat Girls. Scribners, 1994.
2.  Watson, C.M., Quatman, T., & Edler, E. Career Aspirations of
           Adolescent Girls: Effects of Achievement Level, Grade, and Single-
           Sex School Environment. Sex Roles: A Journal of  Research, May
           2002.
3.  Sax, Leonard M.D., Ph.D. Why Gender Matters:  What Parents and
           Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science and Sex
           Differences. Doubleday, 2005.
4.  Lee, Valerie E. and Anthony S. Bryk. “Effects of Single-Sex Secondary
           Schools on Student Achievement and Attitudes.” The Journal of
           Educational Psychology, 1986.