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In 2009, The Australian declared Geelong Grammar to be the "most expensive school in the nation", charging a fee of almost $29,000 for a Year 12 student. [5] This remains true in 2024, with annual fees coming in at just under $50,000 for day students and $85,000 for boarding students.
The first schools in Geelong were established when the town was settled from the 1850s. Many of these schools remain open today, now joined by a number of new schools opened from the 1950s when the population of Geelong grew after World War II. King Charles III spent two terms at the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in 1966.
The school was to be named the Geelong National Grammar School but, at the foundation ceremony, Macarthur asked permission to name it the "Flinders National Grammar School", after Captain Matthew Flinders, the first European explorer to circumnavigate Australia, who had climbed the local You Yangs range and described the Geelong area. [2]
Timbertop is a full-time boarding, co-educational campus of Geelong Grammar School located near Mansfield, Victoria, Australia.It shares its name with Mount Timbertop, which towers directly over the school. [1] A view toward the summit of Mount Timbertop, as seen from the school grounds. A map of the Timbertop Campus, Merrijig, VIC
The Senior Campus is located at the former Highton campus of Geelong Grammar School, which was purchased by Christian College in 1999 and opened to students in 2000. The Bellarine Campus is the former council offices for the Rural City of Bellarine which was amalgamated into the City of Greater Geelong in 1993.
Deakin University maintains two major campuses in Melbourne and Geelong, and is the third largest university in Victoria. In recent years, the number of international students at Melbourne's universities has risen rapidly, a result of an increasing number of places being made available to full fee paying students. [22]
The following year, Braemar College, a midrange-fee co-educational day school, opened on the site. It still operates there today. In 1976 Clyde School, Geelong Church of England Grammar School and Geelong Church of England Girls' Grammar School ("the Hermitage") amalgamated, and today the combined school continues as Geelong Grammar School ...
The first schools in Geelong were established when the town was settled from the 1850s, among them were the historic private schools The Geelong College and Geelong Grammar School. [97] Geelong is also home to the oldest state secondary school in Victoria, Geelong High School (est. 1910 [167]), which has been serving the community for over 100 ...