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Designed for Bold, Curious Thinkers
Westover is an independent, all-girls boarding school in Connecticut where academic excellence meets unconventional opportunity. With signature programs like FIRE (Financial Independence, Readiness, and Empowerment), WISE (Women in Science & Engineering), students explore deeply, think critically, and lead with confidence.
Here, students prepare for college and prepare to lead lives of consequence. Surrounded by a supportive community, guided by inspiring faculty, and fueled by their own passions, Westover girls illuminate their own paths, amplify their voices, and elevate their futures.
Tuition Assistance Offered
4.5M
Performing & Visual Arts Courses
35
Clubs and Affinity Groups
35+
Regional Athletic: Championships Won
51
Students enrolled
160
Countries are represented in student body
24
Faculty to student ratio
1:4
Need-Based Financial Aid
$4.5M
Explore Our Programs
From ninth grade to graduation, Westover students grow into confident leaders and changemakers. Our programs encourage exploration across academics, arts, and athletics—while building skills for life beyond high school.
Grade 9 to 12
Imagine an entire community that inspires you and roots for you. A global community full of classmates eager to explore and collaborate, faculty that encourage you to seek challenges and share your ideas, and dorm parents that listen with full attention and open hearts. Imagine a place fortified by sisterhood, where friendships are family, lifelong, and unbreakable. At Westover School, be seen, be known, be boldly you.
Westover offers 23 varsity and JV teams, including squash, basketball, soccer, and cross-country. Whether students are on a nationally ranked team, or one that was newly introduced, they’ll learn teamwork, resilience, and leadership firsthand.
23
Athletic Teams
51
Regional Championships
2
National Championships
Arts
The arts are at the heart of Westover. Students explore and immerse themselves in dance, theater, music, and visual arts, discovering new ways to express themselves and bring bold ideas to life.
Testimonials
"Girls’-centered education is powerful for so many reasons, and top among them is that you are the central character in your story. At Westover, you are the protagonist, the hero in this world that was built specifically for you. These buildings, the supporting characters of teachers and staff, and the limitless opportunities place you at the center."
Westover School admits students of any race, color, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin, or disability to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. As a gender-diverse girls school, Westover welcomes applicants and students who are assigned female at birth and/or identify as girls. The School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational policies, admissions and financial aid policies, and athletic or other school-administered programs.
