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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.auprosper 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