Nightingale students are joyful learners who have the intellectual depth and the courage to be critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and agents of their own lives. The Nightingale-Bamford School inspires girls to go beyond barriers by infusing their lives with meaningful reltaionships, teaching them to value difference as a source of strength, and empowering them to quesiton the status quo with confidence, empathy, resilience, and reason.