Geelong Grammar School is recognized as the lighthouse school in Australian co-educational boarding, preparing students for the dynamic of the modern world through enabling boys and girls to live and learn alongside each other. For more than 150 years, Geelong Grammar’s focus has been the cultivation of young people and their capacity to find the best within themselves. It believes in an education that looks beyond the surface, developing students spiritually, emotionally and physically as well as academically. As Australia’s largest co-educational boarding school, it provides a unique learning and living environment that allows students to grow and flourish.

Boarding: Boarding is available from Years 5 to 8 (Middle School) and Years 10 to 12 (Senior School) and is compulsory for Year 9 at Timbertop, the school’s remote campus located in the foothills of the Victorian Alps. Geelong Grammar’s Corio Campus (Middle and Senior School) is situated on a 245-hectare site on the edge of Corio Bay, 60 kilometres from Melbourne and just 12 kilometres from Avalon Airport. There are three boarding houses at the Middle School and eight boarding houses at Senior School – approximately 80 percent of Senior School students are boarders. Each boarding house has a resident Head of House (and his or her family), a Deputy Head of House, three tutors (who are also teachers at the school), and a full-time assistant. Year 12 students have their own study-bed rooms, Year 11 students generally share smaller rooms, and younger students are in dorm-style accommodation. All Houses have common rooms, computer work areas, tennis courts and other games and recreational facilities. The exceptional academic and outdoor programme at Timbertop provides Year 9 students a year away from the normal school regimen – a year of challenge and adventure promoting initiative, self-reliance, resilience and a sense of community. It is a campus like no other. Here, adolescents develop personal skills and qualities beyond those possible in a traditional suburban day school. While living together in a small, supportive and secure community, they are exposed to intellectual, physical and emotional challenges under demanding environmental conditions. They connect to their personal strengths, develop confidence and learn the value of co-operative endeavour.

Positive Education: Geelong Grammar School developed Positive Education from the science of Positive Psychology in collaboration with Professor Martin Seligman and his team from the University of Pennsylvania. Positive Education focuses on cultivating positive emotions and character traits, encouraging students to find purpose and lead engaged and meaningful lives. Positive Education is taught at each year level, at every campus and across all aspects of school life.

ELC to Year 4 at Bostock House, Newtown, Geelong; ELC to Year 6 Toorak; Years 5 to 8 and 10 to 12 at Corio, Geelong; Year 9 at Timbertop, Mansfield