The decision to send your child to Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School is a choice that will shape her future. At Ivanhoe Girls’ we believe the opportunity to educate students and prepare them for happiness and success in their adult lives is a privilege. Since 1903 we have nurtured the strengths of our learners. Today, the School continues to provide a personalised education for each student to explore and extend herself academically, socially and culturally, while developing a disposition founded on integrity and generous service to our community.

We believe that the wellbeing and character development of our students is as important as their academic achievements. By maintaining our enrolments between 850 – 1000 learners from our Early Learning Centre through to Year 12, we are able to know each student as an individual, to monitor her progress carefully and to ensure she feels accepted, valued and validated in a nurturing atmosphere. In so doing, we develop articulate, courageous, critical thinkers who are generous of spirit, have a lifelong love of learning, who have a voice and use it to make a positive contribution to their wider community.

As testament to Ivanhoe Girls’ tradition of innovative and socially progressive education, our graduates have achieved outstanding success in a broad range of Australian and international tertiary pathways, across a diverse field of studies. The key to success is to encourage and nurture creativity in whatever combination of subjects our students are interested to study and explore, which is why Mathematics, the Sciences, Visual Arts and Music are among our most popular and successful subjects.

Teachers, who are passionate experts in their field, help to provide the inspiration and support each student needs to flourish. Our students are challenged to set personal learning goals and to become deep learners in order to achieve them. We expect our students to think independently, to question their own and other people’s ideas, and to know that there are no mistakes, only opportunities to learn.

Ivanhoe Girls’ is a remarkable and forward-thinking school that enthusiastically embraces innovation, internationalism and new opportunities. I look forward to meeting you and to introducing you to our students who speak for themselves at Open Day or an upcoming School Tour.

Narelle Umbers
Principal

Our School Values

At Ivanhoe Girls', we welcome every student as a unique individual and we foster in her the confidence to discover her talents and to build upon them. 

Our School Values are meaningful, strong and concise and reflect the unique culture and environment that is Ivanhoe Girls’. They play a key role in the connectedness with our traditions and share values and sit alongside our Statement of Purpose.

Our School Values:

• Drive community – belonging and respect
• Help decision-making and collaboration – what matters to us and how we support each other
• Educate the community about our identity – who we are
• Deliver consistency – what we say and do.