The Maine Girls’ Academy (MGA) is Maine’s only college-preparatory school designed for and dedicated to young women in grades 7-12. An independent, all-girls school, The Maine Girls’ Academy educates girls to be confident thinkers, compassionate leaders, and purposeful change makers—women who will change the world. MGA continues to embrace many of the values and traditions that are part of the rich educational history in the preceding schools, blending innovation with the best of tradition and base decisions on the current research about how girls learn, develop, and thrive. MGA offers an innovative and rigorous program of study and holistic experience—fostering growth and development in mind, body, and spirit. Readers of Down East Magazine have recognized the school’s academic excellence by naming it Maine’s “Best Private School” in 2015, 2016, and 2017 affirming a vote of confidence in the school’s programming and work.