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GGA Aspirational Culture: The GGA founding team uniquely understands the importance of a highly visible and tangible college- and career-going culture, having served in high schools for several years.  A college- and career-going culture is a school ...

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:  At GGA, unique learning profiles, learning differences, and diversity are respected and valued as assets.  Our inclusion policy focuses on what students can do and establishes norms for the development of stu ...

At GGA, girls will use their voices to become leaders on issues that matter most to them. They will build the academic and interpersonal skills needed for success, contentment and a positive impact on the world now and in the future. Research surv ...

LEADership Academy is on Wednesday afternoons.  Students have an early release schedule to explore issues that matter to them in the local and global community to develop future-ready personal and professional skills.

This program of study will allow you to incorporate your passions into learning.  How you learn will through design thinking will prepare you for any course of study in the future.  Design thinking helps you to become a problem solver, critical think ...

Girls Global Academy student wellness is supported by our support team.  We will have a professional licensed counselor and Advisory focused on social-emotional learning twice per week.  We know from talking with girls they want to have a space in th ...

Girls Global Academy’s appreciates diverse learners and supports students in demonstrating their learning is a variety of ways. Academic advisory is embedded in the school schedule twice per week teach successful approaches to learning

We aim to have small class sizes around 15 - 18 students per class.  Small classes mean that our teachers will know every girl by name and understand her academic needs well.

Girls Global Academy is pursuing the International Baccalaureate Career Program with distinctive pathways in Engineering and Business Students take one pathway course each year in addition to rigorous courses across a variety of disciplines.

Girls Global Academy will offer track and volleyball during our opening year.  Since we are a small school we may need to partner with another school to offer additional team sports like basketball.  We also want to learn what sports interest girls.

Girls Global Academy will offer a variety of activities like robotics, dance, self-defense, creative writing in the opening year.  We will also offer activities girls are most interested in and we are gathering interest facts in our survey. It is imp ...

Green, Yellow, and Red lines and Metro Station serving Red, Orange, Blue and Silver Lines Bus routes 70, 79, 30, 32, 33, 34 and 36

We are located in Ward 2.  Our Address is 733 8th St NW Washington DC 20001. Girls Global Academy is a destination high school in the center of the city with access to a variety of transportation points.  This center of the city location supports our ...

The Girls Global Academy school day starts at 8:00AM-4:30 PM to include enrichment activities.

Girls Global Academy has registered to wear uniforms.  We actually want our founding students and founding families to be a part of the decision making around uniforms.  We definitely want girls to wear shirts that have the GGA logo, our sisterhood, ...

To apply for Girls Global Academy, a student must be a DC resident and apply through the lottery process using MySchoolDC.

Girls Global Academy is a tuition-free Public Charter School in Washington, DC.