Senior Years

At Loreto, our senior students are recognised as young emerging adult women and as such are given increased responsibility and independence. This is manifested across a wide range of activities and includes an active role in the leadership of the school student community.

The senior provision of a study room acknowledges the needs of our senior students for private study time and the provision of a common room equally acknowledges the need of our senior students to interact socially with each other in a comfortable setting to help them keep a healthy balance between academic rigour and relaxation. Students are encouraged to maintain this balance through continued involvement in the school's many co-curricular activities.

 An extensive course conferencing process involving parents, staff and students ensures that each individual student's academic and career pathway is based upon an informed choice. Loreto provides multiple pathways for students and caters for individual needs including university, TAFE and vocational programs.

At Loreto, opportunities are provided for every girl to develop to her full potential: spiritually, academically, socially, emotionally and physically. Christian principles, particularly those of justice, integrity, compassion, generosity and respect, underpin our entire Senior Years curriculum.

Each year, Loreto consistently produces high numbers of “merits” (perfect 20’s) across an extensive range of subjects. Since 1995, Loreto students have gained 366 merits across 42 different subjects. Loreto successfully caters for a wide range of academic abilities and interests.

SSABSA data confirms that Loreto consistently outperforms “like schools”* in Years 11 and 12, as shown by the adjacent graphs. This occurs despite us being an academically non-selective school.