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A finishing school focuses on teaching young women social graces and upper-class cultural rites as a preparation for entry into society. [1] [2] [3] The name reflects the fact that it follows ordinary school and is intended to complete a young woman's education by providing classes primarily on deportment, etiquette, and other non-academic subjects.
The school's college preparatory curriculum reflected a national shift in women's educational opportunities; until the late nineteenth century, girls' schools were mainly finishing schools or arts schools and were not academically equivalent to men's schools. Miss Orton's School was the first non-religious private girls' school in Pasadena, as ...
Los Angeles Pacific College (defunct), East Los Angeles, California (co-ed 1960–1965) Marymount College of Los Angeles, Los Angeles (merged to create Loyola Marymount University in 1973) Mills College, Oakland (merged with Northeastern University in 2022) Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles; Napa Ladies' Seminary
The school was founded in 1908 by Katherine Delmar Burke and was named Miss Burke's School. [4] Instead of the traditional finishing school for girls, Burke had the goal of building a school that would provide college preparation for girls. [7] [8] The school's first location was at Steiner and Pacific Streets in Pacific Heights. It then ...
Marlborough School is an independent college-preparatory secondary school for girls in grades 7 through 12 at 250 South Rossmore Avenue in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Marlborough was founded in 1889 by New England educator Mary Caswell and is the oldest independent girls' school in Southern California. [ 2 ]
Girls Academic Leadership Academy: Dr. Michelle King School for STEM (GALA) is a public grade 6–12 [1] all girls' school in Mid-City, Los Angeles. [2] It is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Mathematics and science are specialty fields of the school. [3]
The Archer School for Girls is an independent, college preparatory girls' school for grades 6–12, located in West Los Angeles, California, United States. Archer currently enrolls 490 students from 79 different zip codes and 141 feeder schools .
The building was designed by Sumner P. Hunt and built in 1893. [3] It was originally an experimental kindergarten and has also been used over the years as a prestigious college preparatory school for girls, an inn and restaurant, a military barracks in World War II, the headquarters of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics Foundation, and a shelter for homeless women.