History
Our Lady's Abingdon was found in 1860 by Sister Clare Moore of the Sisters of Mercy, a lady who worked with Florence Nightingale. The school's main auditorium is named after her, the Clare Moore Auditorium, known as the CMA. The school began educating boys and girls, later on only being a Single-sex education and now introducing boys into the senior school again. Our Lady's, the name of the school, refers to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
In 2009 the school allowed boys to join the senior school, the school has since allowed boys to join at any age, expecting the whole school to be co-educational by 2013.
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