The Hockaday experience is like few others. As an all girls’ school, our students are set apart by two visible advantages: the opportunity to participate and the opportunity to lead. Our top scholars, team captains, yearbook editors, the leads in school plays and musicals - they are all girls. Girls are the ones raising their hands, using the microphone, and being heard.

It is a Hockaday tradition to develop the full potential of each girl. Almost 100 years ago, Ms. Ela Hockaday established the School’s four cornerstones of Scholarship, Character, Courtesy, and Athletics. These cornerstones are our commitment to building the personal integrity of each student while carefully guiding her intellectual and social development.

From Lower School through Upper School, Hockaday strives to provide students opportunities to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in an ever-changing world, a world that has become more global in its orientation and more complex than ever before in history. No two girls will forge forward on the same path as they leave Hockaday, but it is our great satisfaction to know that with the values, self-esteem, friendships, and academic advantages they take with them, each girl will be fully prepared for the next important step of her unique journey.

Jeanne P. Whitman
Eugene McDermott Headmistress