Ravenswood School for Girls
| Ravenswood School for Girls | |
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Gordon, New South Wales Australia |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′33″S 151°9′20″E / 33.75917°S 151.15556°ECoordinates: 33°45′33″S 151°9′20″E / 33.75917°S 151.15556°E |
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| Type | Independent, girls, day and boarding |
| Motto |
Latin: Semper ad meliora (Always towards better things) |
| Denomination | Uniting Church |
| Established | 1901 |
| Chairman | Mark Webb |
| Principal | Anne Johnstone |
| Employees | ~209 |
| Key people | Mabel Fidler (Founder) |
| Enrolment | ~1100 (K–12) |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue, Gold and Red |
| Slogan | "Ravenswood widens her world" |
| Website | www |
Ravenswood School for Girls (often referred to as Ravenswood) is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for K-12 girls, situated in Gordon, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1901 by Mabel Fidler (1871–1960), Ravenswood currently caters for approximately 1100 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, including 20 boarders from Years 10 to 12. The school has been an IB World School since June 2004, and is authorised to offer the IB Diploma Programme.
Ravenswood is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).
Ravenswood was established with eight students on 28 January 1901 by the first Headmistress, Mabel Fidler, as a non-sectarian private day school for girls, with preparatory classes for boys. The first classes took place in a schoolroom erected on the block adjacent to Fidler's home, "Ravenswood", in Henry Street, Gordon. The school remains on this site.
Fidler retired from Ravenswood in 1925, a year after the school was purchased by the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, thus becoming a school of the Methodist Church. Subsequently, the school name was changed to Ravenswood Methodist Ladies' College. At this time, Ravenswood was the largest non-residential, private secondary school in Sydney, with an enrolment of 180, and was highly regarded for the quality of its teaching and its achievements in sport. Ravenswood became a day and boarding school in 1935, with the enrolment of the first two boarders.
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