The Archer School for Girls
United States
/ California
| Children/Education
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Archer was founded in 1995 by three women, Dr. Diana Meehan, Megan Callaway and Vicky Shorr, all graduates of girls' schools and all parents of daughters about to enter middle school. Informed by current research on the clear benefits of single sex education for girls and guided by their founding principles of innovation, community and diversity, Archer opened in a converted Pacific Palisades dance studio with just over 30 sixth and seventh grade students. More than a decade later, Archer's tremendous growth to 500 students on an eight-acre historic Sunset Boulevard campus is a testament to our role as a model of the renaissance of girls' schools. Our founders' basic premise- that girls thrive in a learning environment of their own- is now playing out across the country: since our founding, over 25 girls' schools have started in the US.
