Kambala School
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Rose Bay, New South Wales Australia 
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| Coordinates | 33°51′54″S 151°16′19″E / 33.86500°S 151.27194°ECoordinates: 33°51′54″S 151°16′19″E / 33.86500°S 151.27194°E |
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| Type | Independent, Single-sex, Day and Boarding |
| Motto |
Latin: Esto Sol Testis (Let the Sun be your Witness) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Established | 1887 |
| Chairman | Chris McDiven |
| Principal | Debra Kelliher |
| Employees | ~113 |
| Key people | Louisa Gurney (Founder) |
| Enrolment | ~950 (P–12) |
| Colour(s) | Grey, Gold and Blue |
| Website | www.kambala.nsw.edu.au |
Kambala is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located on one campus in Rose Bay, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1887, Kambala has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 950 students from Pre-school to Year 12, including 95 boarders from Years 7 to 12. Students come to Kambala from the greater metropolitan area, rural New South Wales and overseas.
The school is affiliated with the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia (AGSA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).
Kambala was established in 1887 by Louisa Gurney, the daughter of an English clergyman. Gurney conducted her first classes with twelve girls at a terrace house in Woollahra called 'Fernbank'. In 1891, Mlle Augustine Soubeiran, who had assisted in the running of the school and who taught French, became Co-Principal. To accommodate increasing enrolments, the School was moved to a larger property in Bellevue Hill called Kambala, from which the school took its new name.
In 1913, with an enrolment of nearly fifty, the School moved again, to its present site in New South Head Road, Rose Bay. The property was known as "Tivoli", from the original Tivoli Estate, and was previously occupied by Captain William Dumaresq and later by merchant James Robinson Love. The spacious new building was built in 1841, and the notable architect John Horbury Hunt was commissioned to extend it. Today this building houses Kambala's boarders in Years 7 to 10.
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