Geelong Grammar School
Geelong Grammar School is a private Anglican co-educational boarding and day school. The school's main campus is located in Corio on the northern outskirts of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, overlooking Corio Bay and Limeburners Bay.
Geelong Grammar School
Latin: Christus nobis factus sapientia
(1 Corinthians 1:30: "For us, Christ was made wisdom"[1]
(1 Corinthians 1:30: Christ, who has been made for us in wisdom))
1855[2]
Theodore Carlos Benoni Stretch
Rebecca Cody
ELC–12
Co-educational
1,433 (ELC–12)
Exceptional Education
Established in 1855 under the auspices of the Church of England,[3] Geelong Grammar School has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,500 students from Pre-school to Year 12, including 800 boarders from Years 5 to 12.[4]
In 2009, The Australian declared Geelong Grammar to be the "most expensive school in the nation", charging a fee of almost $29,000 for a Year 12 student.[5] This remains true in 2024, with annual fees coming in at just under $50,000 for day students and $85,000 for boarding students.[6]
In 2017, a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that Geelong Grammar had failed to act on reports of widespread child sexual abuse.[7] Five former staff members at Geelong Grammar School have been convicted of extensive child sex offenses committed while teaching at Geelong Grammar. The Royal Commission found that consecutive principals and administration had failed to report allegation and protect students.[7]
Extracurricular activities[edit]
Sport[edit]
Geelong Grammar is a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS).
School journal[edit]
The Corian is the journal of the Geelong Grammar School. Published as The Geelong Grammar School Annual (1875–76), The Geelong Grammar School Quarterly (1877–1913) and The Corian (1914–present). Published quarterly from 1877, it reverted to an annual in 1992.
Associations[edit]
Geelong Grammar School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[31] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA),[4] the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[32] the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),[2] and is a founding member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APSV).[33] The school is also a member of the G20 Schools Group. The school has offered the International Baccalaureate (IB) since February 1997.[34]