Loreto Convent School, Pretoria

Loreto Convent School is a private high school in Pretoria, South Africa, founded in 1878.

Loreto Convent School was founded on 7 June 1878 by Mother Margaret Mary Jolivet, Mother Joseph Colahan and Mother Teresa Colahan, at Loreto Convent, Skinner Street, with 20 pupils in the high school and 6 in the parochial school.^[1]

Notable former pupils

• Lady Cicely Mayhew (1924–2016), first British woman diplomat.^[2]
• Inez Clare Verdoorn (1896–1989), botanist

Notable former teachers

• Anne van Zyl, education administrator