Calrossy Anglican School

AT A GLANCE WHO: Calrossy Anglican School WHAT: Single sex day and boarding for Secondary Girls and Secondary Boys from Year 7-10, with Coeducational classes for senior students. WHERE: 140 Brisbane St, East Tamworth NSW 2340, Australia WEBSITE: calrossy.nsw.edu.au prosper in education and life. Calrossy now offers a unique “diamond school” model of education, with a co-educational primary, single sex Secondary Girls and Boys in Year 7 to 10, before the students combine together in classes in Years 11 and 12. It allows Calrossy to still offer a one-stop shop for parents, that can target its teaching to best suit each gender, before they come back together as more mature students for the reality of a co-educational world beyond school. Calrossy calls it the “diamond school advantage.” It is a model that is working. The number of boarders has grown from around 40 to 50 pupils in the days Principal David Smith was a young man in Tamworth, to the present day range of 230 young girls and boys. Boarders from Year 7-12 are spread out over four campuses, and make up almost a third of the schools’ secondary students. Indeed, certain years even have a waiting list for boarding, no doubt spurred by not only the school’s excellent academics, but the ‘unique experience’ it prides itself on providing to its young scholars. Calrossy unquestionably has a major role to play in helping to raise