GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• The educational program cultivates critical thinking; teachers foster academic achievement and intellectual investigation.
• Teachers have proven experience, inspire individual talents, and are role models and mentors for our students.
• Students have the opportunity to excel in subjects in which girls have too often been restricted, such as math, science, and technology.
• A project-based curriculum integrates all subjects to help students understand how disciplines interconnect.
• The curriculum provides time to delve deeply into subjects and incorporates cooperative learning techniques and hands-on experience.
• JMSG challenges girls to excel academically without the anxiety and pressures often placed on students.
• Academics combine with service learning to involve girls in projects beyond the classroom.
• The accomplishments of women and girls of different ethnic and class backgrounds are an integral part of the curriculum.
• A balanced program includes classical traditions of western civilization and a synthesis of world cultures and voices.
• JMSG utilizes the resources of the Bay Area, including field trips, speakers, and contact with inspiring women from all walks of life.

DIVERSITY

JMSG is dedicated to building and maintaining a community of students, families and teachers that represents the full diversity of the East Bay. The School is a place where girls from various racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic backgrounds and family compositions, learn and grow through teamwork and respect for individual and cultural differences.

A significant financial aid program supports socio-economic diversity.  Major donors and foundations make possible a JMSG education to a broad range of girls.  One third of the students at JMSG receive some kind of financial help to attend the School.