Our Graduates

Our young women graduate with a sense of purpose and much promise.  During their Upper School years, they have found their voices and are committed to making their marks in the world.  They are instilled with Holy Child goals and values, which will continue to guide them as they embark on their purpose-filled adult lives. 

Our graduates have learned…

  • To seek academic excellence for themselves.
  • To foster their personal faith commitment.
  • To contribute to the strength of their Christian community.
  • To work for justice, peace and compassion in our world.
  • To engender reverence and respect for themselves and each other.
  • To value their human development aesthetically, intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially.
  • To celebrate Holy Child traditions and start new ones of their own.

One-hundred percent of our Upper School graduates attend college.  The college admissions process has become increasingly competitive, and Oak Knoll offers a full time college counseling staff to ensure that the process remains personal and focused on each student’s development and needs. 

One-hundred percent of our Upper School graduates attend college.

The Latest Research

As a member of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools (NCGS), Oak Knoll is honored to share research commissioned by the NCGS and released in March 2009 by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute that confirms graduates of girls’ secondary schools have a definite edge over their co-ed peers.

According to the UCLA report, girls’ school graduates:
  • consistently assess their abilities, self-confidence, engagement and ambition as either above average or in the top 10 percent.
  • have more confidence in their mathematics and computer abilities and study longer hours.
  • are more likely to pursue careers in engineering, engage in political discussions, keep current with political affairs, and see college as a stepping stone to graduate school.
  • rate themselves more successful and engaged in precisely those areas in which male students have historically surpassed them — mathematics, computers, engineering, and politics.