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The school is owned by the Lagos Archdiocese and managed by the Sisters of St. Louis, Nigeria province.

Marywood Girls College was returned back to the church under the former Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie on   was founded on 16th October, 2005. It was founded with the sole aim of developing children into leaders through providing a rigorous educational programme that combines academic achievement with personal development, creating well adjusted, socially aware and responsible children who will go on to become “THE PRIDE OF THE NATION”. The Academy is propelled by its vision and mission.  This in turn informs the staff recruitment and operational guidelines.

Yes, it is.

The food menu includes meals that are common in Nigerian homes. They include bean meals (jollof beans, steamed ground beans (moin-moin) & fried ground beans (akara), boiled rice & stew, jollof rice & fried rice, cassava meal (eba), bread with boiled or fried eggs, sweet potatoes with fried eggs, spaghetti, boiled yam, vegetables, cornflakes and golden morn. Eggs, meat, chicken and fish with fruits. Fruits such as oranges, water melon, pineapple, banana (depending on the type of fruits in the market) are served during lunch. Snacks are served twice daily. Students with a need for special diet are given due consideration.
Each class has the capacity for thirty students. Most classes usually have between 25 and 28 students.
Yes. Visitors (on request with the permission of the principal) are allowed to come and check the hostels in the month of August when students are not on the compound.
Our sources of electricity supply are PHCN, generators, and inverters. PHCN power supply is not quite stable and so we depend on the generator from 4.00am till 10.00am, 12.00p.m till 4.00p.m and 6:30pm till 10:30pm before switching to inverters till 4.00am the next day.
The grading system is so high so as to get students to face the reality that they are competing with geniuses all over the world.

Marywood Girls College is a single full boarding school for girls

Students wear their hair low in order to concentrate on academics.
We feel that it is better to keep the number low in order to be able to know each student well and to give each one the attention she deserves. The three arms give us about ninety students per year

Yes, we have very good teaching hands which can be attested to by the students both high moral and academic standards. For now, the school has sixty-eight teachers.

There is adequate supply of clean water for drinking since the school has a well installed REVERSE OSMOSIS (R O) for purifying their water.  MGC has four (4) functioning boreholes and there is constant water supply in the school.

It is simply a matter of policy not to admit students midstream into both our junior and senior classes.

Yes, the special educational needs of students with specific learning difficulties are addressed either individually or in small groups.

Helping MGC girls become women of integrity is the focus of the school. How they live the life of integrity is each student’s decision.
The school admits and embraces students of diverse faiths and beliefs.

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