Knox Grammar School
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| Location | |
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Wahroonga, New South Wales Australia |
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| Coordinates | 33°43′24″S 151°7′11″E / 33.72333°S 151.11972°ECoordinates: 33°43′24″S 151°7′11″E / 33.72333°S 151.11972°E |
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| Type | Independent, Day & Boarding |
| Motto |
Latin: Virile Agitur (The Manly Thing Is Being Done) |
| Denomination | Uniting Church |
| Established | 1924 |
| Founder | John Gilmore, William McIlrath, Robert Gillespie and Andrew Reid |
| Chairman | Peter Roach |
| Headmaster | John Weeks |
| Deputy Headmaster | Scott James |
| Chaplain | Reverend Peter Robinson |
| Employees | ~163 |
| Years | K-12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrolment | ~2,170 (2006) |
| Colour(s) | Black and Blue |
| Website | www.knox.nsw.edu.au |
Knox Grammar School is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Wahroonga, New South Wales, an upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1924 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia as an all-boys school, and named after John Knox. The school has since grown, branching out into a large Senior School of approximately 1550 students and a Preparatory School of 550. The school also caters for approximately 160 boarding students from Years 7 to 12. During the period of Dr Paterson as Headmaster, the school doubled in size, raised education standards and increased participation in a wealth of activities.
Knox is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and is a founding member of the Combined Associated Schools (CAS).
In January 2015 the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced it would conduct a public investigation into how Knox Grammar had responded to allegations of inappropriate conduct and sexual abuse by teachers towards students between 1970 and 2012. The Royal Commission found in September 2016 that the school's principal between 1969 and 1998 had covered up allegations of sexual abuse made against teachers.
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