Loreto Grammar School

About the School

Loreto Grammar School website offers you a flavour of the community that is Loreto Catholic Girls’ Grammar School.

Loreto is a wonderful school comprising some 1050 students and 100 staff. It is a happy community, one which is rooted in tradition whilst at the same time very forward looking. Their heritage is rich and in 2010 the school celebrated both the 400 Anniversary of Mary Ward’s founding of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and their School Centenary. Such a heritage is a source of inspiration for the future of the School and for the work with the young women in the school.

At a time of profound change in the English education system Loreto Grammar School is proud of the rich curriculum they provide, a curriculum which is dynamic, carefully planned and consistently reviewed to meet the needs of the girls at every Key Stage. Year on year our academic achievements rank very highly at national levels. The school is proud to have been judged “Outstanding” in all categories by Ofsted and by the Diocese of Shrewsbury (Section 48 Inspection).

Loreto Grammar School takes great pride in its international context: they are part of a worldwide network of over 120 Loreto schools and 70,000 students and have strong links with many of their sister schools abroad including India, Australia, Germany and Spain.

As a Catholic school, what makes us it distinct? They provide pupils with a set of educational experiences that help you as parents shape their values, their attitudes, their faith and their sacramental life. Thereby the school and parents collaborate in the creative work of God as He seeks to grow each girl into the woman He has it in mind for her to be.

Loreto Grammar School seeks to nurture young Catholic women who will take leadership roles in the local, national and indeed global society, women of courage who are alive to the needs of humanity and committed to making a better world - women who, in the words of Mary Ward will be ‘No half women,' and who will achieve 'no half measures’.