Our aim is to offer a high-quality, modern, challenging and liberal education. In an inclusive and friendly environment, Rathdown School hopes to foster a love of learning which will enable each student to develop her own unique potential. Our purpose is to support and promote the student's academic, cultural, sporting, creative, musical and spiritual capabilities.

Being a boarding school and welcoming foreign students, Rathdown helps to promote an awareness of cultural diversity and aims to generate tolerance for and recognition of the value of difference. In a community of mutual respect, ideals of good citizenship prepare our students to leave Rathdown, not only as confident mature women in their own right, but also as women able and willing to make a contribution to their society.